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Plastics. They seem so…inert. Slow to erode or decay, with a biodegradation time measured in the hundreds of years, plastics appear cut off from the organic environment in the way that no other product is, safe and secure and sterile.
—PATRICIA HUNT, professor at Washington State University School of Molecular Biosciences and author of a letter published in Science on behalf of 40,000 researchers and clinicians, calling on FDA and EPA regulators to tap the expertise of geneticists, reproductive experts, endocrinologists, developmental biologists and others to help evaluate the broader effect — not just the [...]
When I was researching a piece last year on chemical regulation — and the lack of it in the U.S. — one of the facts I was most surprised to learn was the existence of perchlorate in the bloodstream of many Americans.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is warning against skin-lightening creams that may contain dangerous levels of mercury.
Pregnant women and children have long been warned that they should be wary of eating certain kinds of seafood because of the risk of mercury contamination.
Bisphenol-A (BPA), the endocrine-disrupting chemical in plastics — and the go-to environmental health villain — has vexed public-health experts for at least a decade. Reams of inconclusive and conflicting studies on the health effects of the compound, which is found in plastic food containers, water bottles and the epoxy lining of cans, have hampered a [...]
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
