She suspected a cancer-causing virus moving from host to host.
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The FDA continues to test the ingredient for cancer-causing chemicals.
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U.S. sunscreens fail to provide adequate protection against cancer-causing UVA light.
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Other researchers detected dioxin, the cancer-causing chemical found in Agent Orange.
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Proto-oncogenes can become oncogenes or cancer-causing genes when mutations occur.
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Asbestos, a well-known cancer-causing agent, is often mined near talc.
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Our bodies become a sink for all of these dangerous cancer-causing chemicals.
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However, these products deliver some of the same cancer-causing toxins as cigarettes.
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Glyphosate has been the subject of controversy over whether it is cancer-causing.
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Roughly one in nine U.S. men have oral infections of cancer-causing HPV.
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But 14 years later, they ruled that coffee and similar beverages weren't cancer-causing.
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Traces of cancer-causing contaminants in New Orleans and Pittsburgh public drinking water supplies.
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Tanning is a sign the body is receiving too much cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation.
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Three vaccines are currently available to protect against HPV, particularly the cancer-causing types.
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Cancer-causing infection HPV spreads through sexual contact with someone who is already infected.
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The metal is on California's Proposition 65 list of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals.
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Cancer-causing agents unleashed abnormal cellular proliferation by mutating genes involved in regulating growth.
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Corporate trolls: What do you when you find out your product has cancer causing carcinogens?
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The weapon had a shell made from a composite containing the cancer-causing carcinogen asbestos.
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The good news is that the HPV vaccine targets these high-risk, cancer-causing types.
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Despite their sleek packaging, e-cigarettes still contain cancer-causing chemicals and highly addictive nicotine.
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Simply put, vaping delivers nicotine, but neither cancer-causing tar nor artery-clogging carbon-monoxide.
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Cancer-causing toxins were found lurking in consumer beauty products, including concealer and eye shadow.
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Throw in some of that cheap, probably-cancer-causing temporary hair-dye spray and you're golden.
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The online pharmacy said it found the cancer-causing chemical in valsartan produced by five companies.
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Several blood pressure drugs have already been recalled due to concerns about other cancer-causing chemicals.
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Such a tool might detect viral and bacterial diseases, as well as potentially cancer-causing mutations.
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Hence the categorization of coffee as "unclassifiable" when it comes to its potential cancer-causing properties.
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They needed a new product that did not carry the moral taint of cancer-causing tobacco.
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Because fracking pumps dangerous cancer-causing chemicals into the ground and threatens our drinking water. Bernie.
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Usually, cancer hits older folks hardest, as cells age and sustain more cancer-causing DNA damage.
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The prevalence of cancer-causing HPV strains has dropped markedly in women who have been vaccinated.
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Researchers summarized the existing evidence about PFAS chemicals that can act like established cancer-causing chemicals.
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The F.D.A. has found low levels of a cancer-causing chemical in samples of the drug.
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They're also free from the cancer-causing perfluorocarbons that are still so prevalent in rain gear.
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It came amid the controversy surrounding the company's talc products and whether they contained cancer-causing asbestos.
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According to Allen, the plastic waste often breaks down into toxic chemicals, including some considered cancer-causing.
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The FDA also said it is working to develop testing methods to detect other cancer-causing impurities.
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Tilson himself shorted Lumber Liquidators in 2015, accusing it of selling flooring laced with cancer-causing materials.
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About 4 percent of all adults had an oral infection with a cancer-causing strain of HPV.
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Atmospheric ozone acts as a sunscreen for the planet, blocking cancer-causing ultraviolet light from the sun.
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Many clothing items, such as blue jeans, also carry a dye that can release cancer-causing chemicals.
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Included in these chemicals are known toxins such as acrolein, nicotyrine, and formaldehyde, a cancer-causing agent.
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For many more though, the deadly effects of those cancer-causing debris took time to present themselves.
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In general, vapers are believed to be exposed to fewer toxicants and cancer-causing substances than smokers.
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Berlin-based Foodwatch published research last October showing the presence of cancer-causing hydrocarbons in infant formula.
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Goniewicz has also found toxic substances and cancer-causing compounds, such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, in e-cigarettes.
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Such locations are heavily polluted industrial areas, often contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals such at PCBs or DDT.
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Those who decide to stay have to contend with a drinking water supply contaminated with cancer-causing benzene.
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""The 'Whopper' is a cancer-causing hamburger product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King.
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"Consumers are unwittingly inhaling these byproducts and these byproducts are cancer-causing carcinogens such as formaldehyde," Danek said.
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EVACUATION ORDER LIFTED IN EAST TEXAS CITY OF 14,000 AFTER LEVELS OF CANCER-CAUSING PETROCHEMICAL VAPOR DROP -OFFICIALS
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TPC GROUP HALTED CANCER-CAUSING PETROCHEMICAL LEAKS AT PORT NECHES, TEXAS, PLANT THAT PROMPTED LATEST EVACUATION -FIRE OFFICIALS
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Then there are environmental toxins, which are cancer-causing chemicals and endocrine disruptors, both human-made and naturally occurring.
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Tests found trace amounts of a potentially cancer-causing impurity called N-methylnitrosobutyric acid in some of these drugs.
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They came out with "light" cigarettes, which lowered the amount of cancer-causing tar — along with the nicotine content.
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Cancer-causing impurities have been linked to batches of valsartan over the past year, leading to a global recall.
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A recent medical study published in the journal Pediatrics found that vaping exposes teens to toxic, cancer-causing chemicals.
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With an increased number of mutations, there's a greater chance that they will happen within known cancer-causing genes.
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A green, cancer-causing chemical made its way onto a Detroit-area interstate last week, causing a lane closure.
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The announcements come amid the controversy surrounding the company's talc products and whether or not they contained cancer-causing asbestos.
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Allem said e-cigarettes have been found to contain harmful substances including nicotine, metals like lead, and cancer-causing agents.
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Girls ages 9 to 13 can also get an HPV vaccine for two of the most common cancer-causing strains.
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In fact, studies have shown that nail salons may host more cancer-causing chemicals than auto garages or oil refineries.
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If there's one health myth that just won't die, it's that using a microwave oven is dangerous and cancer-causing.
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The second phase of the trial must decide whether Monsanto knew about glyphosate's cancer-causing properties and didn't fess up.
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Working with another lab at UCSF, they programmed the CRISPR-Cas12a to attack signals from two types of cancer-causing HPV.
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The problem is that they can also contain more dangerous and sometimes cancer-causing, materials such as lead, chromium, and cadmium.
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Since that time, the prevalence of the cancer-causing virus has been dropping among young women, according to a new study.
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Two Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccines — Cervarix and Gardasil — prevent infection with the cancer-causing HPV strains 16 and 18.
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They performed DNA sequencing and found that five lines had cells with a cancer-causing mutation, specifically in the TP53 gene.
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Azo dyes can release cancer-causing chemicals called amines, though some have been found to be carcinogenic because of other chemicals.
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But the new rules, if implemented, would scarcely make a dent in the emissions of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing pollutant.
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A popular drug used to treat high blood pressure has been recalled because some products may contain a cancer-causing chemical.
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Young women who got only one dose of HPV vaccine, versus the recommended three, showed benefits against cancer-causing human papillomavirus.
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Very hot drinks could make the esophagus more vulnerable to known cancer-causing agents such as alcohol and smoke, Freedman said.
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The most common pesticide detected was Dacthal, also known as DCPA, and has been identified as a potential cancer-causing agent.
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Those coal-fired power plants also spew out lead, arsenic, dioxin, acid gases, as well as cancer-causing chromium and selenium.
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The company's stock fell after Reuters reported that the pharma major knew its baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos.
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In 2012, Italian authorities ruled emissions of dust and cancer-causing chemicals from the plant had caused deaths, tumors and respiratory disease.
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If someone tests positive for one of the cancer-causing strains of HPV, the test will not prevent them from developing cancer.
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Many of the toxins include cancer-causing pollutants and harmful bacteria that put the more than 2.4 million people's lives at risk.
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Close to 40 percent of women had any type of HPV and 20 percent had a cancer-causing strain, the researchers reported.
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Its critics, including in industry, say it is sometimes too quick to conclude that substances might cause cancer, causing unnecessary health scares.
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They are widely viewed as safer than tobacco cigarettes because they don't contain the same cocktail of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals.
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Additionally, insecticides like neonicotinoids, fungicides, and all those other cancer-causing sprays farmers douse their crops with are so harmful to bees.
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To the Editor: Re "We Need Better Answers on Nutrition": We need real food, preferably, food not grown with cancer-causing agents.
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Like their cancer-causing predecessors, they fill the insatiable void of social (or anti-social) discomfort with the momentary buzz of stimulation.
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The European Chemicals Agency deemed hydrazine to be a "substance of very high concern" in 2011 due to its potentially cancer-causing properties.
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E-cigarettes vaporize liquid nicotine, so they deliver the drug directly instead of burning tobacco and creating tar, which has cancer-causing chemicals.
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When it comes to certain cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco, e-cigarettes may be a healthier option than regular cigarettes, new research says.
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The 9vHPV vaccine protects against five additional cancer-causing HPV types, giving it the potential to prevent about 90% of HPV-associated cancers.
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Bucher believes that this study has value, if only to further the discussion about the potential cancer-causing properties of cell phone radiation.
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Researchers had known for generations that if you injected a chick's wing with a certain cancer-causing virus a tumor would grow there.
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They conducted their own data analysis and determined that there was widespread lead, lung carcinogens and other poisonous cancer-causing materials, Carr said.
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But interviews and records show that the new rules, if implemented, would scarcely make a dent in emissions of the cancer-causing pollutant.
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Meanwhile, in Texas, oil refineries and chemical plants have dumped a year's worth of cancer-causing pollutants into the air following Hurricane Harvey.
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Also, there is concern that the construction may spread cancer-causing dust in the tunnel, according to M.T.A. documents reviewed by The Times.
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In making the switch, smokers can satisfy their nicotine hunger without inhaling the dozens of cancer-causing carcinogens released by a burning cigarette.
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He also announced he's tapping Vice President Biden to spearhead his "moonshot" effort to cure cancer, causing the vice president to become emotional.
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A cancer-causing substance known as NDMA has been repeatedly found in one of the most popular antacid drugs in the United States.
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The FDA also said it may have identified the root cause of the potentially cancer-causing impurities but that it is still investigating.
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Paris has restricted vehicle traffic in recent days because of record levels of fine, cancer-causing soot particles produced by cars and trucks.
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We are performing rigorous quality tests, including sequencing the stem cells' genomes to be sure the cells are free from cancer-causing mutations.
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Kale is known for being a source of vitamins and other nutrients, but the vegetable could also be tainted by cancer-causing pesticides.
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People who use sunscreen may also have more exposure to the sun's cancer-causing radiation and therefore a higher chance of getting skin cancer.
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February 2015 - The MDEQ notes some "hiccups" in the transition, including a buildup of TTHM, a cancer-causing byproduct of chlorine and organic matter.
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By now, you've probably been taught to gird your sun-starved skin for battle with cancer-causing cosmic rays every time you go outside.
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The recalls began last year after regulators said ingredients used by Chinese manufacturer Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals Co to produce valsartan contained cancer-causing impurities.
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And inadequately treated water may sometimes contain risky levels of arsenic and hexavalent chromium, the potentially cancer-causing chemical that Erin Brockovich made famous.
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The FDA conducted testing from third party laboratories, which the agency said revealed that three makeup products tested positive for the cancer-causing asbestos.
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Though the tobacco industry tried to cover this one up, we've known for years that tobacco smoke contains at least 70 cancer-causing chemicals.
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While many plastics manufacturers have started labeling their products "BPA-free," there's still a lot of the breast- and prostate-cancer-causing stuff around.
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If you type in your own zip code into EWG's database and find that your water is full of cancer-causing contaminants, don't panic.
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Her spleen became massively enlarged and painful, and there was a 63-fold increase in her levels of DNA from the cancer-causing virus.
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Johnson & Johnson has had mixed results defending itself against lawsuits that claimed the talc in its baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos.
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Smoking marijuana releases cancer-causing substancesLike smoking cigarettes, smoking marijuana releases carcinogens, or substances that can increase a person&aposs risk of developing cancer.
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Separately, the F.D.A. has detected low levels of a cancer-causing chemical in the heartburn medication ranitidine, sold under the brand name Zantac. 7.
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And he was losing, as defense lawyers convinced juries that the companies had only recently learned of the dangers of the cancer-causing mineral.
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He thinks they're cancer-causing bird killers that drive down property values, and he fought against putting them within sight of his golf course.
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Once-thriving rivers in China, India, Bangladesh, wrecked by wastewater effluent from factories, have transformed into biologically dead zones replete with cancer-causing chemicals.
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The so-called San Jacinto River Waste Pits, one of several Superfund sites flooded during the storm, contain cancer-causing waste from a paper mill.
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This was a noxious mix of cancer-causing chemicals, smog-forming pollutants, and other pollutants, according to the company's recent report to Texas environmental regulators.
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To reduce distortions caused by noisy data, the researchers excluded counties with large numbers of recent immigrants, who might have acquired cancer-causing mutations elsewhere.
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The hardwood flooring retailer won in court against claims that it did not warn consumers about cancer-causing formaldehyde in some of its flooring products.
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Many people pump their water supplies from the ground, which contains high levels of the cancer-causing chemical in Bangladesh and parts of neighboring countries.
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The recalls began last year after European regulators said ingredients used by Chinese manufacturer Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals Co to produce valsartan contained cancer-causing impurities.
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Topping the Environmental Working Group's list is asbestos, a cancer-causing substance still found in automobile brake pads and clutches, vinyl tiles and roofing materials.
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"When residual nicotine reacts to certain chemicals in the air it forms cancer-causing agents that continue to develop over time," says an RHA paper.
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They found that the vaporizers released 22015 harmful chemicals, including two possibly cancer-causing compounds that had never been previously found in e-cig vapor.
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The Boston-based and U.S-listed firm is one of a handful that perform detailed biopsies of tumors, seeking a range of cancer-causing genes.
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Tests this summer found that cancer-causing contaminants was accidentally added to certain drugs that are used to prevent heart problems and high blood pressure.
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An asbestos case in the 1990s involving 20 companies accused of exposing workers to the cancer-causing substance, meanwhile, settled for more than $1 billion.
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Nitrates or nitrites inhibit the growth of botulism and scientists suspect they may be involved in the formation of cancer-causing compounds in the body.
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This comes just a few months after Indian authorities launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder to see if it contains cancer-causing asbestos.
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A study in the journal Pediatrics, for example, found five cancer-causing toxins in the urine of 16-year-olds who inhaled e-cigarette vapor.
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The British Lung Foundation says more than 80% of secondhand smoke contains cancer-causing toxins, which are more concentrated in the confines of a car.
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When that happens, the immune system can attack a patient's own body, not just the cancer, causing the vaccine to fail and even turn deadly.
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The new findings are consistent with those of the International Agency for Research in Cancer, which found pesticides are cancer causing in humans, noted Chavarro.
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Even if someone has already contracted one strain of HPV, it's still important to get vaccinated because it can protect against other cancer causing strains.
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"California's decision makes it the national leader in protecting people from cancer-causing pesticides," said Nathan Donley, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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On top of that, when using billions of edited cells in a therapy, it's possible that some resulting cells will have detrimental, even cancer-causing properties.
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Getting screened for strains of the cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) can be difficult for many women, but not getting tested can have deadly consequences.
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It comes in the shape of a heart, with little blue squares that fade the more evil skin-cancer-causing rays (sorry, UV exposure), you get.
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But researchers were long unaware that removing nitrates from finished water can leave behind a toxic byproduct, nitrosamines, the cancer-causing chemical found in cooked bacon.
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It has been delayed because of concerns about the clean-up of toxic pollution at its proposed new home, including unsafe levels of cancer-causing benzene.
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"A shift occurred during the period, with brain cancer replacing leukemia as the leading type of cancer causing death" for that age group, the report says.
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These chemicals have been associated with harmful side effects, disrupting the hormonal and reproductive systems, and maybe contributing to the development of cancer-causing genetic mutations.
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However, it's also possible that e-cigarettes may still be less harmful than traditional cigarettes because they have lower concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals, Polosa added.
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Erin Brockovich may have made this cancer-causing chemical famous, but data from nationwide tests show it's still in our water — and at potentially dangerous levels.
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Another just-published study found adolescent e-cigarette smokers' urine tested positive for at least five of the same cancer-causing chemicals found in traditional cigarettes.
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The U.S. Toxicology program does not have talc listed as a cancer causing substance but also say they have not fully reviewed it as a possibility.
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But recent research from the Munich Environmental Institute suggests that there is an unwelcome fourth ingredient in German beers: a cancer-causing weed killer called glyphosate.
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The vote on Monday capped an unusually lengthy and combative European review process that unfolded amid claims and counterclaims about the cancer-causing risks of glyphosate.
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Kathy Blueford-Daniels grew up just a block away from one of those sites, a wood-treating facility that used cancer-causing creosote and other toxins.
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It contains "more than 7,000 chemicals, including approximately 70 known cancer-causing agents such as formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic, ammonia and hydrogen cyanide," she noted.
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The panel will hear from experts on the health ramifications of talc powders and cosmetics, and on methods for detecting cancer-causing asbestos in such products.
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"Unscrupulous Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding world markets with a range of bone-crushing, cancer-causing, flammable, poisonous, and otherwise lethal products, foods, and drugs," he warns.
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The company has recently been in the news after a Reuters investigation found J&J knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in its baby powder.
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Some of these chemicals have been found to be cancer-causing, and vaping could put smokers at a higher risk of heart disease, just like regular cigarettes.
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This week, the Environmental Working Group released findings that more than 400 known cancer-causing chemicals have been found in the bodies of Americans during research studies.
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What differed were the levels of cancer-causing chemicals: people who vaped or who chewed gum or used patches peed out much lower levels of certain carcinogens.
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Sure enough, there is also mounting evidence suggesting that capsaicin can also cause cancer, meaning that it seems to have both cancer-fighting and cancer-causing properties.
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"Americans are exposed to dozens if not hundreds of other cancer-causing chemicals every day in their drinking water, their consumer products and their foods," Walker said.
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However, most every coffee company in the world is aware of this cancer-causing mold and many use wet processing to clean the beans for that reason.
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Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent, is present in products across the entire beauty market, but "there are less products without them" for black women, she said.
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Instead, the report focuses more on how e-cigs could be used to effectively get smokers off regular cigarettes, which contain tar and other cancer-causing chemicals.
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Emails from its own scientists show the International Agency for Research on Cancer failed to comprehensively review evidence on human exposure to the cancer-causing chemical benzene.
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Credit: GettyA decade after its introduction, the vaccine for human papillomavirus has reduced the prevalence of this cancer-causing STD in teenage girls by nearly two-thirds.
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"Kicking Bayer-Monsanto and its cancer-causing weedkiller off L.A. County property was absolutely the right call," Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook said in a statement.
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Unlike gambling, he says, tanning "is a relatively new public health issue," and one that doesn't affect as many people as, say, smoking, another cancer-causing behavior.
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"Kicking Bayer-Monsanto and its cancer-causing weedkiller off L.A. County property was absolutely the right call," Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook said in a statement.
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The organization had sued the manufacturers to force them to lower formaldehyde levels, and to add a warning label noting the presence of a cancer-causing ingredient.
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In Teviston today, one shallow well contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals provides water for 350 people, according to Juan Carlos Mariano, who manages the town's water district.
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The F.D.A. issued a warning that it had detected low levels of a cancer causing chemical in samples of Zantac, and some pharmacy chains stopped selling it.
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But a recent letter in the journal Nature shows that some of the stem cell lines used in these therapies have been found to contain cancer-causing mutations.
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They sequence the tumor DNA, then use Watson AI to help interpret the data, identifying likely cancer-causing mutations and drugs that might be useful to treat them.
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But recent research published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases shows that vaccinating women older than 25 can help protect them from the most cancer-causing strains.
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The FDA and most health experts agree that e-cigarettes are likely less harmful than traditional cigarettes because they don't produce the cancer-causing byproducts of burning tobacco.
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It contains nicotine and cancer-causing chemicals and may increase the risk of death from heart disease and stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Lumber Liquidators said a California court ruled in its favor against claims that it did not warn consumers about cancer-causing formaldehyde in some of its flooring products.
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But a recent letter in the journal Nature shows that some of the stem cell lines used in these therapies have been found to contain cancer-causing mutations.
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"IARC's standards and determinations for classifying substances as carcinogenic, and therefore cancer-causing, appear inconsistent with other scientific research, and have generated much controversy and alarm," Chaffetz wrote.
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Because the tobacco is heated instead of burned, the company claims it cuts the harmful cancer-causing chemicals found in a combustible cigarette by 90 to 95 percent.
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The FDA's decision has ignited controversy over whether direct-to-consumer genetic testing that screens for just three cancer-causing mutations (out of thousands) is empowering or reckless.
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E-cigarettes have been a divisive topic in the public health community, offering an alternative to the nicotine in cigarettes without the same toxic and cancer-causing chemicals.
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The recalls began in July when the F.D.A. found that some valsartan products contained a potentially cancer-causing chemical, a type of nitrosamine called N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA.
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Around dinner time yesterday, sirens wailed in Sarnia, Ontario, warning residents to get inside as a cancer-causing chemical leaked into the air from a nearby Shell refinery.
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CVS is halting sales of the over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac and its generic equivalent because of concerns they contain low levels of a cancer-causing chemical.
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Fifty-two percent of those sites are contaminated with cancer-causing arsenic, and 60% are polluted with lithium, which is linked to neurological damage, according to the report.
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One lane of an Detroit interstate was closed over the weekend while crews cleaned up a spilled cancer-causing from a business nearby, the Michigan State Police said.
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A handful of experiments conducted in the 1980s and '90s, however, revealed some exceptions to the rule, most notably among groups of cancer-causing viruses called polyomaviridae and papillomaviridae.
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And while smoking fewer cigarettes may reduce exposure to cancer-causing chemicals, new research also suggests that vapes can pose significant long-term risks to heart and lung health.
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As EV adoption rates steadily climb, this technology could help stabilize the electrical grid, lessen the need for new power plants, and reduce kids' exposure to cancer-causing exhaust.
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But plant-based bioplastics, which stores increasingly favor, can still contribute to microplastic pollution if released into the environment, Pinsky notes, and molded fiberboard could harbor cancer-causing chemicals.
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In fact, it's possible that you've never even seen the potentially cancer-causing chemical on an ingredients list in the first place — but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
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Partial results were released Friday because they help support a 85033 study by the World Health Organization that caused the group to classify cellphone radiation as potentially cancer causing.
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Foundation Medicine – The company's test that detects cancer-causing gene mutations won approval both from the Food and Drug Administration and from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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The F.D.A. made the product review a priority, citing shortages that occurred in the wake of several recalls of drugs that were found to contain potentially cancer-causing chemicals.
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Andrew R. Wheeler, the administrator of the E.P.A., praised her work implementing the Toxic Substances Control Act, a law that regulates the distribution and use of cancer-causing chemicals.
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Walmart announced Wednesday it is joining other chain stores in halting the sale of the over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac amid concerns it contains a cancer-causing chemical.
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The BRCA gene test is a blood test that identifies harmful and potentially cancer-causing mutations in either one of the two breast cancer susceptibility genes — BRCA1 and BRCA2.
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It also spurred a bunch of researchers to study what impact Jolie's decision might have on mastectomy rates and testing for the cancer-causing BRCA873 and 287 genetic mutations.
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Cancer-causing HPV plummeted in teens since vaccine, study finds "My girls don't know it, but they're up for their first shot the end of the school year," Cross said.
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Individually, coffee and maté did not have conclusive evidence for any cancer-causing effects when served at cool or warm temperatures, meaning the drinks themselves were not classified as carcinogenic.
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An ex-smoker-turned-vaper who had opened a vape shop to help others quit smoking told Soneji that his products were safer because they don't produce cancer-causing tar.
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Schools in Houston suburbs were closed for several days after air quality monitors detected elevated levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical that was contained in ITC tanks that burned.
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A ruling from a Los Angeles judge last week now means that in California, coffee companies like Starbucks must warn customers of a potentially cancer-causing chemical found in coffee.
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The proof of coffee's cancer-causing peril would be more cancer in the group randomly assigned to coffee than the group randomly assigned to the corresponding placebo, coffee-free beverage.
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By peering deep inside the DNA of cancer cells, Stratton and his team are hunting for the unique mutational signatures that different cancer-causing agents and processes have left behind.
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For example, benzo(a)pyrene (one of the major carcinogens in tobacco smoke) tends to bind to G bases, as does aflatoxin, a cancer-causing chemical made by certain moulds.
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Lumber Liquidators' stock and sales have been hammered since a "60 Minutes" report on CBS last March said the retailer's laminates from China contained excessive levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde.
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In June, Valisure told the FDA it found the cancer-causing chemical dimethylformamide in the blood pressure medication valsartan, which was produced by Swiss drugmaker Novartis and other pharmaceutical companies.
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In 1999, during the Clinton administration, the Food and Drug Administration asked the National Toxicology Program (NTP) to study the toxicity and cancer-causing capability of cellphone radio-frequency radiation.
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The country is on track to eliminate cervical cancer in the next two decades, thanks to a government program to vaccinate children against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus, or HPV.
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But while the Maillard reaction is responsible for the formation of cancer-protective pronyl-lysine, it can also result in the production of a cancer-causing compound known as acrylamide.
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Lumber Liquidators' sales and shares were hammered after the CBS program "60 Minutes" reported in March last year that the laminates from China contained excessive levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde.
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And much these oil industry funded efforts to discredit ethanol are diversions so we do not focus on the cancer causing toxic composition of the gasoline they force on consumers.
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Tilson first raised the alarm on Lumber Liquidators nearly a year ago, charging the company was selling Chinese-made laminate that had high levels of formaldehyde, a cancer causing material.
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California, the top U.S. agricultural-producing state, added glyphosate to its list of cancer-causing chemicals in July and will require that products containing glyphosate carry warnings by July 2018.
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Teva Pharmaceutical is recalling certain combinations of blood pressure drug valsartan in the United States following the detection of a probable cancer-causing impurity, the latest global recall of the medicine.
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The drugmaker said it was recalling 104 additional lots "out of an abundance of caution" after the valsartan-containing products were found to contain traces of a probable cancer-causing impurity.
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Even if they're "healthier" than regular cigarettes, e-cigs still aren't great: cancer-causing chemicals have been found in e-cigs, and vaping might still increase your risk of heart disease.
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While this DNA shuffle can promote healthy genetic diversity in a species over a long period of time, it can also lead to harmful, cancer-causing mutations in an individual animal.
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The results follow several quarters of losses after a report in March 2015 alleged that the company's flooring products sourced from China contained high levels of formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical.
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In 239, Italian authorities ruled emissions of dust and cancer-causing chemicals from the plant caused hundreds of deaths and abnormal levels of tumors and respiratory disease in the Taranto region.
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Lumber Liquidators has suffered several quarters of losses after a report in March 2015 alleged that its flooring products sourced from China contained high levels of formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical.
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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said the chemical has long been known as one of the most troublesome cancer-causing agents in smokeless tobacco as well as in cigarette smoke.
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Just days after President Trump's inauguration, the Food and Drug Administration proposed new rule mandating major reductions in the trace amounts of a cancer-causing chemical found in smokeless tobacco products.
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At least 136 acres of Hudson River sediments remain contaminated with General Electric's cancer-causing PCBs after completion of the federally mandated dredging project in the upper Hudson by the company.
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"E-cigarettes have volatile organic compounds, cancer causing chemicals, and flavorings that have been linked to lung disease," said Borelli, who directs the Center for Behavioral Science Research at Boston University.
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Back in the early '90s, coffee was classified as a possible cancer-causing agent, but a new study from the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer helps clear its reputation.
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The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it had detected low levels of a cancer-causing contaminant in samples of heartburn medicines containing the drug commonly known as Zantac.
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DHAKA, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's drug regulatory authority on Sunday issued a ban on sales of popular heartburn drug ranitidine while it investigates a potential cancer-causing substance in the drug.
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Shares of Johnson & Johnson slipped another 2 percent on Monday, extending losses following Friday's Reuters report that the healthcare conglomerate knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder.
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The group analyzed more than 1,000 studies and decided there was inadequate evidence for any cancer-causing effects linked to drinking coffee itself, away from the temperature at which it is served.
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"Scientists now have a very powerful tool to make specific edits at almost any site in the human genome, remove genes, introduce genes, alter cancer-causing genes, repair genetic defects, et cetera."
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Jane claims Kevin's out of touch with their daughter's needs ... and she doesn't want Ava to attend the Malibu school because of its alleged drug issues and cancer-causing agents on campus.
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Last week, schools in Houston suburbs were closed for several days after air quality monitors detected elevated levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical that was contained in ITC tanks that burned.
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Robert Weinberg, a researcher at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute who pioneered the discovery of cancer-causing genes in the '80s, has remained somewhat cool to certain aspects of the cancer-metabolism revival.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer, the world's largest maker of seeds and pesticides, said U.S. farmers were unperturbed by lawsuits seeking damages from Bayer for an alleged cancer-causing effect of glyphosate-based herbicides.
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These include unlawful attempts by the EPA to suspend regulations curbing methane emissions from new oil and gas wells, and to delay implementing standards on cancer-causing fumes from composite wood products.
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The company has been sued by customers who say that its iconic baby powder caused their cancers, citing the link between talc, which is used in baby powder, and cancer-causing asbestos.
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The drugmaker Sanofi announced Friday that it is recalling the heartburn drug Zantac in the United States and Canada because of concerns it could contain low levels of a cancer-causing chemical.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer, the world's largest maker of seeds and pesticides, said U.S. farmers were unperturbed by lawsuits seeking damages from Bayer for an alleged cancer-causing effect of glyphosate-based herbicides.
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Photo: Getty ImagesIn mid-September, the Food and Drug Administration warned that a popular heartburn drug, commonly known by the brand name Zantac, could contain small amounts of a cancer-causing chemical.
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The agency also tested the air quality in the area over the weekend, finding low levels of benzene, one of the potentially cancer-causing chemicals they also found in the ditch water.
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New evidence suggests Neanderthals or Denisovans (another extinct near-human species) may be to blame for introducing a variant of this disease — specifically a cancer-causing strain called HPV 303 — to humans.
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And though there is a preventative vaccine for some of the most harmful, cancer-causing iterations of the virus, a person's immune system — not an external treatment — is what's responsible for suppressing it.
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More than 1 in 5 adults has cancer-causing HPV, CDC reports Cross, 57, said it came about as a result of a routine digital rectum exam during a visit to her gynecologist.
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Nonsmokers can and do get lung cancer (cigarette smoke is just one risk factor) but Weeden theorized that these basal stem cells might be to blame for cancer-causing mutations in smokers specifically.
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Monsanto has already suffered damage to its investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in glyphosate products since California added the chemical to its list of cancer-causing products, according to the lawsuit.
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Lumber Liquidators (LL) received a favorable ruling from a California court, which rejected claims the flooring maker did not warn consumers about the presence of cancer causing formaldehyde in some of its products.
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The story paints a pretty disturbing picture: Trump's EPA seems to be keeping information from Americans about their exposure to a ubiquitous cancer-causing chemical — and staving off regulations that would protect them.
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The report also found that 52 percent of those plants had unsafe levels of cancer-causing arsenic in nearby groundwater, while 60 percent showed unsafe levels of lithium, which can cause neurological damage.
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The HPV vaccine was first recommended for adolescent girls in the United States in 2006, and since then, the prevalence of the cancer-causing virus dropped among young women, a 2016 study found.
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The biggest drag was Johnson & Johnson, which tumbled 20.8 percent for its biggest drop since 203, after Reuters reported that the pharma major knew its baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos.
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Here's why that's important: the central public park in my hometown of Sarnia, Ontario has been closed for years after a black slurry of cancer-causing chemicals, including asbestos, bubbled to the surface.
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The report also found that 52 percent of those plants had unsafe levels of cancer-causing arsenic in nearby groundwater while 60 percent showed unsafe levels of lithium, which can cause neurological damage.
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California added glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, to its list of cancer-causing chemicals in July 2017 and will require products containing the chemical to carry warnings by July 2018.
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The biggest drag was Johnson & Johnson, which tumbled 251.35 percent for its biggest drop since 20.3, after Reuters reported that the pharma major knew its baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos.
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In addition, the aerosol from e-cigarettes can contain cancer-causing chemicals such as formaldehyde and benzene; diacetyl, a chemical linked to serious lung disease; and heavy metals, including nickel, tin and lead.
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The agency's own analysis shows that these glider trucks can emit as much as 450 times more life-threatening, lung-cancer-causing particle pollution than 2014 or 2015 trucks that meet the standards.
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These farming approaches also protect farmers, workers and eaters from brain-damaging, cancer-causing, infertility-inducing pesticides, and they promote the biodiversity and insect health essential for food security, and, heck, planetary survival.
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The top 10 emitters of cancer-causing ethylene oxide gas are all located in Louisiana and Texas, according to Bloomberg Environment analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency's air toxic emissions data this week.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Cervical cancer could be eliminated in Australia within the next two decades because of a government program to vaccinate children against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus, according to a new report.
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The pharmacy chains are pulling the heartburn medication from shelves after the Food and Drug Administration warned that it had detected low levels of a cancer-causing chemical in samples of the drug.
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In that study, CRISPR's ability to identify specific genetic codes and attack was used to zero in on cancer-causing HPV and send out a glowing signal when it was present in human cells.
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Existing companies that sell tobacco and cigarettes, along with those "that have created cancer-causing products or (are) guilty of deceptive marketing" would be locked out of the market, according to the Sanders plan.
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In the best-supported category, the team reports conclusive evidence that completely switching to e-cigarettes can cut down on a smoker's exposure to the toxic and cancer-causing chemicals found in regular cigarettes.
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Here's what they're saying about grilling: When meat or fish is cooked at a high temperature (like on a grill) it produces cancer-causing toxins, HCAs (heterocyclic amines) and/or PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons).
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Seven suburban Minnesota cities have sued the makers of refined coal tar used in driveway sealants, saying it has contaminated retention ponds with cancer-causing chemicals, increasing disposal costs when the ponds are dredged.
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In 2004, a small study linked parabens — Read more: Cancer-causing toxins were just found in foundation and sparkly makeup — here are 11 chemicals that could lurk in your lipstick, lotion, and eye powder
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Johnson & Johnson was up 0.5 percent, after falling nearly 13 percent in the past two days on a Reuters report that the company knew for decades that its Baby Powder contained cancer-causing asbestos.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Bayer, the world's largest maker of seeds and pesticides, said U.S. farmers were unperturbed by lawsuits seeking damages from Bayer for an alleged cancer-causing effect of glyphosate-based herbicides.
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Last year, a Missouri jury awarded $28500 billion in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson, in a case alleging the company knew its talcum powder might be tainted with small amounts of cancer-causing asbestos.
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There were a lot of potentially cancer-causing and tumor-promoting agents in the dust that 9/11 responders were exposed to in 2001, including some compounds which may interfere with our thyroid system.
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The EU's blatantly unfair agricultural trade practices affect not only the U.S.. An egregious example is the imposition of a ten-fold more stringent safety standard for aflatoxin, a cancer-causing natural food contaminant.
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"The neighborhood you live in shouldn't determine how much cancer-causing product is present in your day-to-day life," said lead study author Joseph Lee of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has halted imports of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder until the company proves its product is free from cancer-causing asbestos, two government officials and the product's local distributor told Reuters.
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Some 750,000 people globally are diagnosed with HCC annually, in particular in countries hit hard by chronic hepatitis B or where a cancer-causing mould called aflatoxin contaminates food such as rice, Roche said.
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Diseases like the deadly Ebola, the highly contagious measles, the immunocompromising HIV or the cancer-causing HPV remain problems in underdeveloped countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East — and they're our problems, too.
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The recent Federal Drug Administration announcement that generic forms of the popular antacid Zantac, also know as ranitidine, may contain small levels of nitrosodimethylamine, a possible cancer-causing chemical, has led to worldwide concern.
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Some 750,000 people globally are diagnosed with HCC annually, in particular in countries hit hard by chronic hepatitis B or where a cancer-causing mould called aflatoxin contaminates food such as rice, Roche said.
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She studied cancer-causing viruses and helped write a dozen papers, including one by Dr. Sachs that laid groundwork for the prenatal diagnostic technique of amniocentesis, detecting gender and possible defects in a fetus.
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California added glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's herbicide Roundup, to its list of cancer-causing chemicals in July 2017 and had planned to require that products containing the chemical carry warnings by July 2018.
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Potential cancer-causing agents such as asbestos that coated the World Trade Center buildings' lower columns, and benzene, a component of jet fuel that stoked uncontrollable fires, have long been a cancer concern for researchers.
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Lumber Liquidators — Lumber Liquidators received a favorable ruling from a California court, which rejected claims that the flooring maker did not warn consumers about the presence of cancer causing formaldehyde in some of its products.
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Texas industry, including refineries and petrochemical plants, released an extra 8.3 million pounds (3.8 million kg) of air pollutants including cancer-causing benzene, during Harvey, said the report by the Washington-based Environmental Integrity Project.
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The CDC said it had used an incorrect value to calculate ceiling height, which meant its estimates of the airborne concentration of cancer-causing formaldehyde were about three times lower than they should have been.
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The success of my treatment reflects, in part, the extraordinary promise of personalized medicine that targets specific cancer-causing mutations, although the role I've played in my treatment perhaps takes personalized medicine to the extreme.
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The term "electronic cigarette" refers to a battery-powered device that heats a tank or cartridge of liquid usually containing nicotine, flavorings and other chemicals, but not the cancer-causing tar found in tobacco cigarettes.
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Then the team tried a mouse experiment, giving the animals a cancer-causing agent to elicit changes in the DNA of colon cells and then infecting them with one or the other of the bacteria.
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Sanofi SA said on Friday it would recall popular heartburn drug Zantac in the United States and Canada, the latest drugmaker to pull the medicine, which has been linked with a probable cancer-causing impurity.
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Officials issued the order late on Wednesday in Port Neches, Texas, a city of about 14,000 people 95 miles east of Houston, when monitors found elevated levels of butane and butadiene, a cancer-causing petrochemical.
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But you still wouldn't expect to find a highly toxic ingredient, classified as a cancer-causing substance by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in your highlighter — let alone a highlighter marketed toward children.
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For example, some vaccines for human papillomavirus, or HPV, stop only 70 percent of the strains of the cancer-causing virus, and a new malaria vaccine being field-tested in Africa is only 39 percent effective.
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A recent study has provided an important asterisk to this cancer dichotomy by suggesting that the cancer-causing properties of capsaicin can be cancelled out by 6-gingerol, the chemical that gives ginger its pungent flavor.
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E-cigarettes are theoretically safer than cigarettes because they don't burn tobacco, which produces a noxious mixture of toxic and cancer-causing substances, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aldehydes, and heavy metals like cadmium and arsenic.
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"It's flat-out dangerous to consumers to make them think without any proof that this water protects them from what we know is proven — potentially cancer-causing exposure to the sun," Attorney General Tom Miller said.
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Much of the harm caused by tobacco smoking comes from the combustion process — smoke wears down the cells lining the lungs, damaging them and making them more penetrable to the irritating, cancer-causing chemicals in cigarettes.
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Last year, the World Health Organisation called on countries to reduce their sugar intake and research continues to show that the white stuff is making us fat, which is turn can contribute to cancer-causing obesity.
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In the United States, two notable new genetically engineered crops were approved since late 2014 — apples that do not turn brown when sliced and potatoes that produce less of a potential cancer-causing chemical when fried.
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Even though IARC admits it found only limited evidence of carcinogenicity for one type of cancer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the agency nonetheless put glyphosate in the same cancer-causing category as human papillomavirus and mustard gas.
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Lumber Liquidators ran into losses after CBS's "60 Minutes" television news program alleged in March 2015 that the company's flooring products contained high levels of formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical, leading to class-action lawsuits. reut.
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The FDA started additional tests of these heart drugs, angiotensin II receptor blockers or ARBs, this summer after labs found that NDEA and another cancer-causing contaminant, NDMA, was accidentally added to some of these drugs.
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But while the old adage that microwaves release cancer-causing chemicals called dioxins may have long been debunked, the plastic surrounding her food may contain BPAs, a harmful industry chemical used in plastics since the 1960s.
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Ms. Ryan's case made medical history, because it was the first time researchers found cells that could attack a common cancer causing mutation — a finding that may help thousands of other patients with the same mutation.
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A nonprofit group wants coffee manufacturers, distributors and retailers to post ominous warnings about a cancer-causing chemical stewing in every brew and has been presenting evidence in a Los Angeles courtroom to make its case.
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The study partially supports a 2011 finding from the World Health Organization, which led the group to classify the radio frequencies regularly emitted by mobile phones in the same group as other potentially cancer-causing substances.
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E-cigarettes first entered the market more than 15 years ago as a safer alternative to smoking, since they vaporize liquid nicotine through a heating element to deliver the addictive drug without the cancer-causing tar.
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CVS to offer nationwide telemedicine service through smartphone video You'll soon be able to use your iPhone to pay for CVS prescriptions with Apple Pay FDA expands recall of heart drug for possible cancer-causing contamination
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Claire's stores, a retailer which sells accessories and makeup to mostly young girls, pulled a selection of its makeup from stores after a mother found cancer-causing asbestos in her six-year-old daughter's glitter makeup kit.
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Mylan said on Tuesday it would recall certain batches of blood pressure medicine valsartan in the United States after they were found to contain a probable cancer-causing impurity, the latest recall amid heightened safety concerns globally.
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Bayer, whose stock has slumped amid lawsuits over an alleged cancer-causing effect of its Roundup weed killer, struck a deal in May to sell U.S. sun care brand Coppertone to Nivea maker Beiersdorf for $550 million.
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The risk here has to do with how very hot beverages damage the lining of the esophagus, potentially triggering cancer-causing genetic mutations or making it easier for carcinogens — like cigarette smoke — to flow into the cells.
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David Peyton, a chemistry professor at Portland State University, saw first-hand the fervor of pro-vape science after publishing a study in January 2015 that showed e-cigs produce more cancer-causing formaldehyde than traditional cigarettes.
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The next step is therefore to irradiate laboratory-grown lines of whale cells, in order to encourage cancer-causing mutations and thus find out which genes become active in an attempt to clamp down on those mutations.
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So rather than looking at all six billion letters of the human genome in search of cancer-causing changes, researchers started by focusing on just one gene, p225, which is faulty in the majority of human cancers.
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Hundreds of people showed up Friday to be checked at a medical clinic in Deer Park after air monitors a day earlier showed a spike in benzene, a cancer-causing chemical contained in the tanks of gasoline.
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Last month, Governor Yuriko Koike ordered a delay in moving Tsukiji market, a popular tourist destination, because of concerns about the cleanup of toxic pollution, including unsafe levels of cancer-causing benzene, at its proposed new home.
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CALIFORNIA CONSIDERS BAN OF ALL COSMETICS WITH CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS: California is considering a bill that would ban the sale of all cosmetics in state that contain certain chemicals known to cause cancer and other health effects.
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The European Commission, the EU executive, has proposed extending approval for glyphosate by 10 years after the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) said in a study in March it should not be classified as a cancer-causing substance.
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The watchdog Environmental Working Group set out to quantify this risk among tap water drinkers in the US. The researchers looked at 22 cancer-causing chemicals that were found in US drinking water from 2010 to 2017.
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The visits came as regulators in India launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder following a Reuters report last Friday that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.
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Still, the foundation had to pitch investors on a rehabilitation project that involved removing cancer-causing asbestos from the ship, finding a place to berth it and finding a revenue-generating purpose for the 748-foot vessel.
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Dr. Canfell said that while the vaccination had played a crucial role, cervical screening had also been important in reducing rates of HPV in older adults who might have already been exposed to the cancer-causing virus.
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While the industry argues that vaping is not a steppingstone to conventional cigarettes or addiction, some antismoking advocates contend that young people become hooked on nicotine, and are enticed to cancer-causing tobacco-based cigarettes over time.
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A cancer-causing compound banned by U.S. regulators last year as a food additive has been found at potentially dangerous levels in mint and menthol flavored e-cigarette liquids and smokeless tobacco products, researchers said on Monday.
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The European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration issued alerts over a cancer-causing ingredient used in a blood pressure medication, supplied by Chinese company Zhejiang Huahai, resulting in a recall of affected drugs.
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The Gardasil vaccine, which is given to both men and women, protects a person from seven of the most high-risk (cancer-causing) types of HPV, as well as the two types that cause most genital warts.
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Living in the modern world, it seems each day brings new warnings about how our environment is conspiring to kill us, from cancer-causing cell phones to plastic-laden drinking water to hormone-disrupting skin care products.
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It says its own supply (which is drawn from local aquifers) is tainted with cancer-causing radium—three times the limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency, or the EPA—and it's been getting worse year after year.
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From town to town, residents are told their water may include cancer-causing arsenic and uranium, organ-damaging disinfectant by-products (DBPs), which also increase the risk of cancer, and nitrates, which cause serious health issues for infants.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A test from Foundation Medicine Inc that can detect cancer-causing mutations in 324 genes has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agencies said.
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The government of the most populous U.S. state added glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's herbicide Roundup, to its list of cancer-causing chemicals in July and will require that products containing glyphosate carry warnings by July 2018.
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Public health officials blamed the odorant for many of the symptoms residents complained about, though they said they don't expect long-term illnesses from the gas, which is mostly methane, or trace elements such as cancer-causing benzene.
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Experts say this belief stems not just from the presence of fewer cancer-causing chemicals than combustible cigarettes, but also from the fact that many vaping products are sold in sweet or fruity flavors that may appear harmless.
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Six months later, Dr. Fitzgerald, then state health commissioner in Georgia, was appointed to lead the agency that protects Americans from epidemics, water contamination, cancer-causing compounds and hundreds of other health threats, at a salary of $197,000.
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Gibson noted that a single factory in China made the active pharmaceutical ingredient for a common blood pressure medicine, valsartan, that was found to contain a cancer-causing chemical that has been used to make liquid rocket fuel.
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The Paradise Irrigation District, the City's water authority, has warned residents to avoid drinking the water because of unsafe levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzine, believed to have come from burned materials that seeped into the pipes.
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Companies such as Foundation Medicine Inc and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc offer genetic profiling tests using so-called next-generation sequencing that can identify hundreds of potential cancer-causing gene mutations from a small tissue sample at once.
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While the industry argues that vaping is not a steppingstone to conventional cigarettes or addiction, some antismoking advocates contend that young people become hooked on nicotine, and are enticed to use cancer-causing tobacco-based cigarettes over time.
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During those chats, they came up with an idea for their final thesis, a design for an e-cigarette that would give smokers the nicotine they craved but without the cancer-causing substances that come from burning tobacco.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Thousands of residents of an East Texas city who fled elevated air levels of cancer-causing petrochemicals were allowed to return to their homes on Thursday after leaks at a chemical plant were halted, officials said.
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The HPV vaccine is highly effective against the cancer-causing types of human papillomavirus, but only half of teenagers and young adults have gotten all three of the doses recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The 14,000 residents of Port Neches 95 miles (153 km) east of Houston were told to flee late on Wednesday when air monitors detected high levels of cancer causing petrochemicals butane and butadiene following an explosion last week.
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Residents of Port Neches, Texas, a city of about 14,000 people 95 miles (153 km) east of Houston, were told to flee late on Wednesday after air monitors detected elevated levels of butane and butadiene, cancer-causing petrochemicals.
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Instead, the carmakers colluded to restrict the size of tanks used to hold a fluid that cleanses diesel emissions, the commission said, while delaying deployment of filters that remove cancer-causing particles from the exhaust of gasoline engines.
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According to a draft study by CDM Smith, the city was adjusting pH levels to reduce cancer-causing compounds like trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids — byproducts of the disinfectants large water systems like Newark use to eliminate harmful microbes.
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Take for example the case of Lumber Liquidators, whose stock collapsed after CNN's Anderson Cooper reported, on the CBS News show "60 Minutes," that the flooring sold by the company contained high levels of the cancer-causing chemical formaldehyde.
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Image: ShutterstockIn a study that's bound to attract considerable controversy, a pair of researchers are claiming that between 290 and 66 percent of all cancer-causing mutations are the result of random DNA copying errors, making them essentially unavoidable.
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The letter from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology is part of an ongoing investigation into the agency after the EPA posted and withdrew an internal report that said glyphosate was not cancer causing.
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Lumber Liquidators on Monday reported a bigger-than-expected drop in sales for the third straight quarter as it struggles to revive demand following a report that some of its flooring laminates contained excessive levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde.
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The name of my treatment room is Yosemite, as if I'm on fucking vacation in one of our great national parks instead of taped to a table, half-naked, while a machine shoots cancer-causing rays into my body.
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As a former industrial site, the land is also classified as a "brownfield" by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency because it contains hazardous and cancer-causing chemicals, so all of the soil might have to be cleared and replaced.
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The agency has resisted calls to ban the cancer-causing substance outright, even against the wishes of some of its staff, arguing it must continue to go through its risk evaluation process, even if lengthier than some might prefer.
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The federal regulator and its counterparts in Indian states launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder following a Reuters report in December that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.
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The soaring sales come even as a divisive debate rages on over e-cigarettes, which offer an alternative free of the cancer-causing chemicals found in cigarettes, but are often seen as spurring new nicotine addiction, especially among teens.
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The South Carolina plant's refined coal operation stopped spraying bromide on the coal burned at the Cross Generating Station out of concern for the elevated levels of cancer-causing trihalomethanes, Crosby said, and the levels decreased within six months.
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Our awareness was heightened several months ago when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled valsartan, a blood pressure medication, after a probable cancer-causing chemical was identified in the active pharmaceutical ingredient and traced to a manufacturer in China.
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Sure, you may not be seeing as much of the sun, but UVA rays — the aging and cancer-causing ones that penetrate through windows and clouds, and into the deepest layer of skin — are still kicking, all day, every day.
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"It's flat-out dangerous to consumers to make them think without any proof that this water protects them from what we know is proven—potentially cancer-causing exposure to the sun," Iowa attorney general Tom Miller said in a statement.[BuzzFeed]
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According to a study conducted by the Environmental Working Group released this morning, there's a very good chance your morning cereal has traces of the potentially cancer-causing chemical glyphosate, better known as the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup.
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The news came on top of a separate scandal at Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical, which said on July 19 that it had decided to recall a blood and heart drug in the United States, after a cancer-causing impurity had been found.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit by 22 ovarian cancer patients against Johnson & Johnson went to trial on Wednesday in Missouri state court, marking the largest case the company has faced over allegations its talc-based products contain cancer-causing asbestos.
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But three months of widespread, ongoing diesel generator use presents a different problem: Diesel exhaust, which "contains more than 40 toxic air contaminants, including many known or suspected cancer-causing substances, such as benzene, arsenic, and formaldehyde," according to one study.
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OSHA – workplace safety: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration seeks to relax a new worker safety regulation in shipbuilding and construction businesses, putting at risk thousands of workers who are exposed to beryllium, a cancer-causing substance (Reuters special report).
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About 98% of us will contract the potentially cancer-causing mononucleosis virus by the time we're adults, from kissing someone who has the virus, sharing food or drinks, or coming in close contact with them when they're coughing or sneezing.
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Fear-driven phone calls about a common stomach medicine being contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical flooded my office on Friday, as the drug company mega-producer Sanofi added to the public alarm by recalling its popular product, Zantac-OTC.
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HOUSTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Thousands of residents of an East Texas city who fled elevated air levels of cancer-causing petrochemicals were allowed to return to their homes on Thursday after leaks at a chemical plant were halted, officials said.
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E-cigarettes are a divisive topic in the public health community, offering a nicotine alternative to cigarettes without the same toxic and cancer-causing chemicals, but they have also become popular with teens, drawn to candy and dessert flavor varieties.
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New Orleans's permissive attitudes are also reflected in the idea, which often emerges when tobacco bans are proposed, that people should have the freedom to inhale all the cancer-causing smoke they want as long as they know the risks.
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Ingredients for the fake food seasonings include tap water and industrial-grade salt, which is banned from human consumption in China because it can cause damage to the liver and kidneys due to the presence of cancer-causing agents and heavy metals.
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A blaze at Mitsui & Co Ltd's Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) petrochemical facility in Deer Park, Texas, last month released cancer-causing chemicals into the air and waterway that connects Houston to the Gulf of Mexico, disrupting shipping along the nation's busiest oil port.
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Chris Bullen, an e-cigarette researcher and professor at the University of Auckland's School of Public Health, noted that newer electronic cigarettes use a heating control mechanism that prevents "cooking" the liquid inside them, reducing the risk of generating cancer-causing chemicals.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The ozone layer that shields life from cancer-causing solar rays is recovering at a rate of one to three percent per decade, reversing years of dangerous depletion caused by the release of harmful chemicals, a U.N. study said on Monday.
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The skin bleaching ingredient hydroquinone, for example, is banned in the European Union because it may act as a cancer-causing agent, but companies can still manufacture products with it, export them to foreign markets, and sell them in communities of color.
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E-cigarettes, which offer a nicotine alternative to cigarettes without the same toxic and cancer-causing chemicals, have seen rapid growth in the United States, prompting Marlboro maker Altria Group to buy a 43 percent stake in Juul for $12.8 billion in December.
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Earlier in the day, the company said it would recall certain batches of blood pressure medicine valsartan in the United States after they were found to contain a probable cancer-causing impurity, a day after European regulators stepped in to ban the products.
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In addition to the overtime increase, unions scored major victories when the Obama administration issued one rule limiting workplace exposure to silica, a cancer-causing substance, and a second rule requiring investment advisers to act in the best interests of their clients.
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Cancer-causing PCBs dumped in the Hudson by General Electric from the 1940s to 1977 continue to pose significant health threats to anyone living along or near the 200-mile stretch of the river between GE's now-shuttered manufacturing plants and the Battery.
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The visits came as the CDSCO and state-based food and drug administrations launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder following a Reuters report last Friday that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.
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Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle in a ruling published on Monday said that Starbucks and other coffee sellers did not show that the risk from consuming acrylamide, a possible cancer-causing byproduct created during coffee roasting, was offset by benefits from drinking coffee.
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The Trump administration on Thursday said it will issue a draft regulation placing a limit on a cancer-causing chemical frequently found in drinking water by the end of the year, but provided no details on the level of protection it would seek.
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Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle in a ruling published on Monday said that Starbucks and other coffee sellers did not show that the risk from consuming acrylamide, a probable cancer-causing byproduct created during coffee roasting, was offset by benefits from drinking coffee.
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Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid have announced they are pulling the heartburn medication Zantac and other generic versions from their shelves, citing reports from the Food and Drug Administration of a cancer-causing contaminant in samples of the drug earlier this month.
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Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid have announced they are pulling the heartburn medication Zantac and other generic versions from their shelves, citing reports from the Food and Drug Administration of a cancer-causing contaminant in samples of the drug earlier this month.
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Two years later, it launched LiquidHALLMARK, which the company describes as "the first and only clinical sequencing blood test that detects both cancer-related genetic mutations and cancer-causing viruses with a single assay" and looks for signs of fourteen types of cancer.
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Those at risk of coming in contact with cancer-causing substances on the job include:• aluminum workers• painters• tar pavers (who come in contact with the carcinogen benzene)• rubber manufacturers• hairdressers who deal with dyes daily• nail-salon workers breathing in dangerous fumes
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"However, proposed budget cuts would shrink the EPA by nearly a third, crippling the science, data collection and enforcement that protects our health — even gutting a program that tests cancer-causing radon in schools," the musician, whose real name is Ahmir Thompson, continues.
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Unfortunately, planning for a more economically and environmentally sustainable future along the Hudson remains a difficult and nearly insurmountable challenge because of the legacy of cancer-causing PCB contamination that has fouled the river's sediment, fish and waters for the last 70 years.
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DEER PARK, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of neighborhood residents of a petrochemical plant that burned for three days and briefly emitted cancer-causing benzene into the air brought their coughs, headaches and other symptoms to a mobile clinic on Friday set up by local health officials.
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Loaded with potentially cancer-causing compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), the meat-tinged smoke can be absorbed through the skin—and not just the skin of the grillmaster, but even BBQ guests in the area who aren't even eating what comes off the grill.
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Dating back to at least 1971, Johnson & Johnson company executives, scientists, and lawyers knew its baby powder was tainted with cancer-causing asbestos — but J&J failed to disclose it publicly, misled regulators, and continues to deny it today, a Reuters investigative report reveals.
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Baumann is under pressure to boost Bayer's share price after a 22018 percent fall so far this year, partly in response to the risks relating to the more than 73,27 lawsuits it faces over an alleged cancer causing effect of Monsanto weed killer Roundup.
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As a result, the group classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to people.... It often takes many years between the use of a new cancer-causing agent and the observation of an increase in cancer rates, such as with tobacco and lung cancer.
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HOUSTON, March 22 (Reuters) - A three-day petrochemical fire that spread a cancer-causing chemical and thick smoke over Houston suburbs this week has spurred calls for tougher safety regulations that could affect a nearly dozen crude-export terminals proposed for the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Researchers found that "in rats exposed to cancer-causing substances, those that were treated with turmeric were protected from colon, stomach, and skin cancers," according to a summary of turmeric's potential health benefits by Memorial Sloan Kettering, one of the top U.S. cancer centers.
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Researchers from the University of Central Lancashire analyzed soil, debris and char samples within 140 meters, or about 460 feet, of the tower in West London and found "significant environmental contamination," including cancer-causing chemicals and other substances that can cause respiratory and nerve problems.
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The case of Bertila Boyd-Bostic, who died of a rare form of cancer in 2017 at the age of 30, is the latest in a series of trials in the United States that centre around allegations that the company's talc-based powder contains cancer-causing asbestos.
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NEW DELHI, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Indian drug inspectors have seized samples of Johnson & Johnson's baby powder from a plant in a northern state, an industry source said on Wednesday, following a Reuters report the company knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in the product.
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CHICAGO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A test from Foundation Medicine Inc that can detect cancer-causing mutations in 324 genes has won simultaneous approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agencies said in a statement on Thursday.
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One of the members is Michael Tilchin, a white gentleman from Washington, D.C., and the vice president of CH22M Hill, a global engineering company that's caught up in a major contamination scandal: Dozens of its workers inhaled cancer-causing plutonium—not once, but on multiple occasions.
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It found that after five to eight years of vaccination, the prevalence of infection with the two most common strains of the cancer-causing viruses decreased by 83 percent among girls 13 to 2023 years old and by 66 percent in women 20 to 24 years old.
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Chief Executive Werner Baumann is under pressure to boost Bayer's share price after a drop of more than 35 percent so far this year, dragged down by concern over more than 9,103 lawsuits it faces over an alleged cancer-causing effect of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer.
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But the Metropolitan Transportation Authority considered a similar idea nearly five years ago and determined that it raised serious safety concerns, including the potential for the spread of cancer-causing dust that could harm commuters and workers, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
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The pharmacy chains Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS have moved to stop selling the heartburn medicine Zantac and its generic versions after the Food and Drug Administration warned this month that it had detected low levels of a cancer-causing chemical in samples of the drug.
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One possible explanation for these increased rates is that flight attendants are exposed to a lot of known and potential carcinogens, or cancer-causing agents, within their work environment, said lead study author Irina Mordukhovich, a research associate at Harvard University&aposs T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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"As a scientist who is not a toxicologist, I don't see any trends in existing data indicating any real significant issues with tire crumb or synthetic surfaces and cancer-causing agents," said McNitt, who gave the opening remarks Wednesday at the national Sports Turf Managers Association conference in Orlando.
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It also adds to the list of assets sold by Bayer, as the German company looks to slash debt from its $23 billion takeover of seed maker Monsanto last year and as it braces for a potential settlement of lawsuits over an alleged cancer-causing effect of weedkiller Roundup.
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A lawsuit first filed by the Council for Education and Research on Toxics in 2010 seeks to require coffee sellers, including Starbucks, BP, Gloria Jean's and 7-Eleven, to warn customers about the ingestion of acrylamide, a possibly cancer-causing chemical that's produced when coffee beans are roasted.
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"Although this investigation found and documented the presence of hazardous conditions and cancer-causing chemicals, ranging from formaldehyde to heavy metals and mold, the investigation is inadequate to determine how great a risk they pose to human health, much less to determine appropriate remedial measures," the documents said.
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Concerns that the steam from the blast contained potentially cancer-causing asbestos raised fears of a repeat of the aftermath of 9/11, when many police, volunteers and other first-responders ended up with often fatal respiratory ailments -- which compounded the loss of some 3,000 people killed by terrorists.
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Items include the bedazzled rainbow heart makeup set and metallic hot pink glitter makeup A report last Friday from WJAR-TV in Rhode Island cited Kristi Warner, who mailed her daughter's glitter makeup kit to a lab, which said it contained tremolite asbestos, a toxic, cancer-causing material.
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The French drug maker Sanofi said Friday that it was recalling the over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac in the United States and Canada, a month after the Food and Drug Administration first alerted the public that versions of the drug contained low levels of a cancer-causing contaminant.
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These researchers, typically molecular biologists by training, have turned to metabolism and the Warburg effect because their own research led each of them to the same conclusion: A number of the cancer-causing genes that have long been known for their role in cell division also regulate cells' consumption of nutrients.
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In the agency's own technical review supporting it's order, Henigan said the FDA found that the Swedish product contained significantly lower levels of N-nitrosonornicotine, or NNN, as well as another cancer causing chemical known as NNK, than over 97 percent of the smokeless tobacco products currently on the U.S. market.
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EPA TO DECIDE ON PFAS THIS YEAR: The Trump administration on Thursday said it will issue a draft regulation placing a limit on a cancer-causing chemical frequently found in drinking water by the end of the year, but provided no details on the level of protection it would seek.
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He does briefly bring up that Monsanto produced Agent Orange, but fails to explain what it was: a chemical defoliant used strategically during the Vietnam War that decimated the environment, exposed millions of US soldiers to cancer-causing toxins, and caused hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese children to be born with birth defects.
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The course, an elective, covers the health impacts from chronic exposure to common chemicals and includes house calls for students to assess chemicals found in local residents' homes, such as cancer-causing compounds used in perfume fragrances, body lotions and plug-in air fresheners, as well as the threats posed by them.
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"Although this investigation found and documented the presence of hazardous conditions and cancer-causing chemicals, ranging from formaldehyde to heavy metals and mold, the investigation is inadequate to determine how great a risk they pose to human health, much less to determine appropriate remedial measures," lawsuit documents filed Tuesday say, according to CNN.
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Several studies have detected a range of toxic chemicals in e-cigarette vapor, including diacetyl, which is associated with the severe respiratory disease known as "popcorn lung"; aldehydes, which are probable carcinogens; acrolein, a potent irritant often found in air pollution; and the cancer-causing tobacco-specific nitrosamines that are also found in cigarette smoke.
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He would financially incentivize marijuana businesses to be nonprofits; prohibit products and labels that target young people; ban tobacco companies, as well as other companies that make cancer-causing products or are "guilty of deceptive marketing," from the pot industry; set market share and franchise caps; and establish federal regulation for the safety of cannabis products.
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Such promotions are part of a wide-ranging "normalization" strategy by Philip Morris to scrub its image as a purveyor of cancer-causing cigarettes and present its new smoking alternatives as youthful, upscale lifestyle products, according to a ten-month study by tobacco researchers at Stanford University, who shared it exclusively with Reuters before its release on Friday.
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But the data suggest turnover at the building known as the Austin Nichols House was significantly higher than city averages for coveted rent-stabilized buildings, leaving behind a trail of anger, disrupted lives and a lawsuit to be filed Monday in which tenants say they were harassed and exposed to high levels of cancer-causing dust.
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The anti-vape cabal continues to publish studies on how e-cigs produce cancer-causing chemicals; how non-traditionally flavored products (read: mango, fruit, cotton candy, etc.) get more people hooked on nicotine products than non-flavored ones; and how it's dangerous to have very little knowledge about what's actually in e-liquid or its components, either the solvents or the flavorings.
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In health news, the Food and Drug Administration found low levels of a cancer-causing chemical in samples of Zantac, so our staff reporter Christina Caron asked experts what pregnant people with heartburn should do, and Jacob E. Osterhout wrote about five childhood ailments that don't require a visit to the E.R. Plus, Lisa Abramson shared her experience with postpartum psychosis.
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The situation raises questions about whether federal health authorities were too slow to connect the dots between the environmental concerns around the cancer-causing gas — which EPA first disclosed five years ago — and the potential consequences to the medical device industry, which uses the gas to clean roughly half of all sterile devices, or more than 33 billion products a year.
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In 2011, the Federal Drug Agency was presented with enough research to approve a cervical pap test and an HPV test for women, giving doctors the green light to check women's cervixes for pre-cancerous cells or cancer-causing strains of HPV—a main reason for the significant drop in cervical cancer and the number of cervical-cancer related deaths.
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We found examples of weight loss supplements spiked with cancer-causing drugs that had been pulled from the US market, brain enhancers laced with chemicals that have never been approved for sale in the US, and more than 100 products contained DMAA, a drug that's been banned in the US, UK, and several other countries because it is linked to strokes, heart failure, and sudden death.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson on Monday scrambled to contain fallout from a Reuters report that the healthcare conglomerate knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder, taking out full-page newspaper ads defending its product and practices, and readying its chief executive for his first television interview since investors erased tens of billions of dollars from the company's market value.
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In fact, both the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the American Cancer Society say scientific research suggests coffee is more likely a cancer fighter, as it can reduce people's risk of developing certain cancers in the breast, liver, and colonAcrylamide is just one of more than 1,000 chemicals on a list that the state of California has on its danger list of potentially cancer-causing compounds.
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Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE and Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters F-bombs away: Why lawmakers are cursing now more than ever White House offers reassurances amid recession fears as 2020 candidates sound alarm MORE are petitioning the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban a potentially cancer-causing chemical from consumer and children's products, including shampoo, shower gels and lotions.
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