Formaldehyde is a common but unwelcome guest in many modern homes, leaking silently from furniture, flooring, and household products. While this colorless gas is a known respiratory irritant, cleaning ...

Let the experts explain.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has again missed a deadline to propose a ban on chemicals in hair-straightening products that may pose a serious cancer risk. Its target date for the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from hair-straightening products, often used by Black ...

A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no safe level of exposure to the carcinogen. By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump ...

In the final days of the Biden Administration, the EPA locked in a formaldehyde risk evaluation built on the Agency’s long-controversial IRIS assessment—only for the next EPA to do something genuinely ...

Structure, which concentrates on metabolic diseases with a particular focus on obesity, unveiled the topline data for its GLP-1 drug aleniglipron. The weight-loss treatment was put through its paces ...

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict. Reading time 3 minutes The Trump administration ...