Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

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 chemical formaldehyde is found just about everywhere, including in composite lumber, plastics, paints and glues used in many homes and offices. This past week, an EPA evaluation said it poses “an ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks researcher Kimberly Bertrand about hair relaxers containing formaldehyde and moves by the FDA to ban them. People use hair relaxers for many reasons - for day-to-day ...

Formaldehyde-free hair-straightening products have been marketed as a safer option, but they may pose a risk to kidney health, a case series suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Formaldehyde is a quite simple yet reactive organic compound that can be found in building materials, household products, cigarette smoke, and vehicle emissions. However, it is more than just an ...

Formaldehyde shows up in beauty products not because brands want to alarm consumers, but because it has long been used to preserve formulas and prevent dangerous bacterial growth. While pure ...

EPA said formaldehyde, a ubiquitous and cancer-tied chemical, presents an “unreasonable risk” to human health, a finding that triggers regulatory action to restrict or ban certain uses. The final ...

In a world flush with hazardous air pollutants, there is one that causes far more cancer than any other, one that is so widespread that nobody in the United States is safe from it. It is a chemical so ...