Tag: health

As tiny fibers shed from synthetic textiles invade our bodies, researchers scramble to identify potential threats.

“I am proud that California is the first state in the nation to take a stand against cruel cosmetic animal testing.”

The FDA’s lack of urgency dumbfounds food safety scientists.

"Without compliance inspections, the EPA cannot know whether schools pose an actual risk of asbestos exposure to students and personnel."

Alcohol consumption is one damaging effect among many that flow from this dominant socio-economic system.

"These troubling findings should raise alarms at the Food and Drug Administration and ignite renewed efforts to drastically reduce all Americans' exposure to BPA."

Now, roughly 11 percent of the world's population is facing food insecurity.

"How much perjury is too much perjury from a Supreme Court nominee?"

A senior official at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has received millions of dollars in payments from companies that are involved in medical research. His omissions expose how weakly conflict-of-interest rules are enforced by journals.

"The folks who are gouging people and creating shortages, they know who they are. And they're the ones who should be very concerned."