Endocrine disruptors | How can chemicals affect the health of developing children?

As we enter new-gadget buying season, spare a moment to meet the people who end up handling your old stuff. Isauro Flores-Hernandez, who takes apart used smartphones and tablets for a living, keeps thick gloves, metal tongs and a red fireproof bin by his desk here at Cascade Asset Management, an electronics scrap processor. He uses them to whisk aw...

According to the report of European Commission Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products, last week several products have been found non compliant with EU legislation. This included:(*) Earrings (Brand: unknown). The amount of nickel  released by the earrings is too high (value: up to 2.7 mg/cm²/week). Nickel is a...

Using nanotechnology, researchers have developed a way to treat prostate cancer by restoring tumor suppressors, based on preclinical models in the lab.The loss of tumor suppressors, including genes such as PTEN and p53, helps cancer cells grow uninhibited.Researchers from the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital i...

Just last week, the agency announced a crackdown on companies that make e-cigarettes and stores that sell the products illegally to minors. The companies have 60 days to come up with plans to stop those sales or the FDA said it will consider a ban on the sale of all flavored e-cigarette products."E-cigarettes have become an almost ubiquitous -- and...

BPA -free plastic might not be any better than what we were using before, new research has found.The additive, also known as Bisphenol A, helps make plastic durable and tough - but in the late 1990s, researchers at Washington State University found exposure to BPA caused chromosomal abnormalities in mice eggs.That discovery was accidental - B...