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An article by some of the world’s top health researchers published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine points a ...

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The Goodyear plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been using a chemical called ortho-toluidine, linked to bladder cancer, since 1957. The plant has had an outbreak of the disease among workers; there ...

Fred Blackman II, a minister in Austin, has to take dozens of pills every day to deal with the pain and complications of a catastrophic back injury. His experience going uninsured turned him into an ...

The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than ...

The cancer risk from benzene emissions could be up to 2,000 times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s current estimate.