Tag: Cancer - Page 2
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TCE Contamination Lingers & Little Is Done About It - Canadian Class Action Suit Seeks to Change That
Some problems just won't go away. That's what a lot of companies probably think about people who gripe about issues the companies would rather not deal with—as well as what the people griping think about the actual
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Cancer Alley: Big Industry & Bigger Illness Along Mississippi River
There's a region in Louisiana known as cancer alley (or chemical corridor, take your pick). You can guess why. Cancer claims victims at an alarming rate along the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge
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FDA Underestimating Gulf Residents' Carcinogen Exposure From Eating Seafood: NRDC
Something to bring the horror of the Gulf oil spill back fresh to memory: The NRDC says that the FDA is grossly underestimating the exposure to carcinogens in
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Two New Cancer Studies Point to Seaweed and Sunlight For Prevention
Recent University of South Carolina (USC) studies have outlined two important tools in cancer prevention. The studies, which were carried out at USC's Arnold School of Health and the South Carolina Cancer Center, found that seaweed
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Smelly Helmet Assaults Nostrils to Save Noggins
We've covered all sorts of cycling helmets in the past. The Lazer helmet with lubrication between two shells, the Hövding Helmet, which is really an airbag for your head, the multisport Helium helmet that is
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Should Breast Cancer Awareness Turn to Prevention?
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and you're likely to see pink ribbons along with fall colors, as groups raise
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Pinkwash Free Zone: Best Eco-Friendly Beauty for Breast Cancer Research
Seeing pink? It must be October, when the beauty industry slaps a whole bunch of pink ribbons on products that donate to breast cancer research. Sounds
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Are Your Mattress And Bedframe Killing You With EMF?
Forget the tinfoil hat, it is time for tinfoil pyjamas. Scientific American tells us that the bed frames and box springs in most American beds are half the wavelength of TV and FM signals and are acting
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High Levels Of BPA Found In Cash Register Receipts, What You Can Do To Protect Yourself
Image Source: red5standingby Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, has discovered that many cash register receipts contain levels of Bisphenol-A (BPA) hundreds of times higher than those found in
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Safer Cosmetics on the Regulatory Horizon
Industry associations state their desire to "ensure that existing FDA regulatory oversight is enhanced." Advocate groups for safer cosmetics have started a full push to get the public support for cosmetic safety reform. So
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California May Defrock Its Rock Because It Contains Asbestos
About half of states in the U.S. have official rocks. West Virginia has coal. And California has serpentine .... for now. State Senator, Democrat Gloria Romero of East L.A. has proposed dropping serpentine as the state's
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The "Largest Mass Poisoning in History": Arsenic in Bangladesh
Mass poisonings due to arsenic contaminated water in Bangladesh are the tragic unintended consequence of humanitarian efforts to alleviate disease in Bangladesh by building many deep tube wells to produce water for drinking
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Seventh Generation CIP Jeffrey Hollender Speaks Out on Chemical Reform
Bills have been introduced in the U.S. House and Senate to reform the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Although it is barely on the radar of most news media and public awareness, this may be bigger than the gulf
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New Study Suggests Cancer-causing Chemicals in Drinking Water Comes from Shampoo, Detergent
Dishwashing detergent is among the household cleaning products containing ingredients that could form a cancer-causing contaminant in treated wastewater. Photo by rubberglovelover via Flickr. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders
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The New Yorker on Bisphenol A: How Bad is It?
The New Yorker has published a quite thorough piece on the issue of Bisphenol A, the agent that the article's author, Jerome Groopman, says "may be among the world's most vilified chemicals." Bisphenol A (BPA), which is a nearly ubiquitous chemical used
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Ask Pablo: Does Sunscreen Cause More Skin Cancer Than It Prevents? (Updated)
The original Ask Pablo article answering this question was very popular and the Environmental Working Group has just published its 2010 Sunscreen Guide. Since summer is right around the corner, this topic is more
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Green Eyes On: Avoiding Cancer Every Day of Your Life
Last week the President's Cancer Panel released a landmark report suggesting that thus far public health officials have
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How Smart (or Dumb) is your City on the Sun?
You won't find Lobster Boy in Hartford, Connecticut. Or Salt Lake City, Utah, or Denver, Colorado, for that matter. Those are the top three most "Suntelligent" big cities in the U.S., according to a survey by the American
