Can tanning lotions give you a bronze glow without boosting your risk of skin cancer and wrinkles? The active ingredient in most sunless tanners is dihydroxyacetone (DHA). It makes you…
Category: Cancer
“You wouldn’t swallow a spoonful of toxic cosmetic ingredients,” wrote Time.com in 2016. “But in some ways, smearing them under your arms in the form of deodorant or antiperspirant may…
Since 1980, the U.S. incidence of liver cancer has tripled and the death rate has doubled. “Excess weight, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and diabetes are greatly contributing to higher rates…
It’s a success story. The death rate from colorectal cancer in 2016 was less than half of what it was in 1970. One troubling sign: while colorectal cancer is dropping in…
Researchers identified roughly 280 people who chose “alternative”—that is, unproven—treatments for several non-metastatic cancers. After five years, patients who chose alternative treatments were six times more likely to die of…
“American adults just keep getting fatter,” proclaimed the New York Times headline on March 23rd. “New data shows that nearly 40 percent of them were obese in 2015 and 2016,…