French drugmaker Sanofi recently announced a recall of over-the-counter Zantac, the widely used acid reflux medication, in the U.S. and Canada over concerns of possible contamination from a probable ...

A group of scientific advisers to the Environmental Protection Agency voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a recommendation that a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon and other nonstick and ...

The WHO has declared aspartame, a food additive used frequently in diet soda and other low-calorie beverages, "possibly" carcinogenic to humans, but did not make any changes to its recommendations for ...

On the hunt for drugs contaminated with a likely carcinogen, the FDA initially tested and cleared generic diabetes med metformin. But now, after an independent lab challenged those findings, the FDA ...

No amount of alcohol is good for you. Alcohol is a carcinogen, and people who drink more are more likely to die of cancer, ...

A new report from the National Research Council has upheld the listing of formaldehyde as “known to be a human carcinogen” in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens (RoC). The ...

SACRAMENTO — A fight is coming to California over whether to list one of the world’s most common over-the-counter drugs as a carcinogen, echoing recent high-profile battles over such substances as ...

Chemicals that release the ‘highly toxic’ preservative formaldehyde were found in more than half the beauty products used by Black and Latina women in a new study Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter ...

Researchers asked U.S. regulators to pull some sunscreens from the market, including brands such as Coppertone, Banana Boat and Neutrogena, saying they’ve found evidence of a potential carcinogen.

The products contain benzoyl peroxide, which can produce the carcinogen benzene under certain conditions La Roche-Posay; SLMD; Walgreens The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced a voluntary ...