In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Do you know what is in the air you breathe? According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the most cancer-causing chemical you're breathing is formaldehyde. FOX13 learned ...

Formaldehyde's toxicity was presumed to derive from its ability to crosslink DNA, but that happens only at huge doses. Recent discoveries that formaldehyde is found in the body in small amounts led a ...

EPA’s draft risk evaluation for formaldehyde preliminarily finds that formaldehyde poses an unreasonable risk to human health. The draft risk evaluation preliminarily concludes formaldehyde does not ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration plans to recommend a ban on formaldehyde in hair-straightening products after years of research suggests the chemical may cause hormone-related cancers, like breast, ...

AMeD syndrome is a severe genetic condition found in children that presents with accelerated aging, global developmental delay and bone marrow failure, progressing to myelodysplastic syndrome and ...

Formaldehyde shows up in beauty products not because brands want to alarm consumers, but because it has long been used to ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. 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 ...

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 ...

There are so many at-home products for frizz that promise to deliver smooth, silky hair. But nothing quite compares to the results you'd get by booking a salon appointment for a professional keratin ...