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Your skin is the body's largest organ. Whatever you're putting on (or in) your body including conditioner, deodorant, toothpaste and lotion, is being absorbed...

From Red Adair, the Texan who extinguished oil-well fires (think of John Wayne in the 1968 movie "Hellfighters") to the first responders on 9/11,...

While a great deal of buzz arose with the recently vilified Stanford University study about the questionable benefits of organic foods for children, new...

Q: I thought I was born with my genes (some from Mom, some from Dad), and they made me who I am. Now I...

Those colorful inks include phthalates (hormone disrupters that you worry about in plastics), as well as carcinogenic metals and hydrocarbons. Black ink (based on soot) may contain hazardous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons...

Like the rapacious Audrey II in "Little Shop of Horrors," some of the easiest-to-grow houseplants can devour what's bad for you. (But not bad...

Nobody knows just how much of a risk toxins in our food really pose. Most of the associations between chemical exposures and disease are just that--associations. But we're exposed to dozens, if not hundreds, of chemicals, and the effects of some multiple exposures may be more...

In an attempt to own up to mistakes in chemical formulation of personal health care products for children and adults, Johnson & Johnson has announced it is in the process of removing dangerous chemicals from commonly used personal products in the next few years. These chemicals are associated with potential cancer and other serious health conditions.

Toxic phthalates have been found in 75 percent of all school supplies for children, according to a recent report from the Center for Health,...

Drinking tea has been promoted for thousands of years as a way to improve overall health and to address specific health conditions. Long before...