Researchers from various countries now say that there is no such thing as a "safe tan" as ultraviolet rays (UV), no matter that the source is, causes skin cancer.

Their findings, published in the October issue of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, say that exposure to UV radiation, from sunbathing or indoor tanning beds can cause DNA damage, photoaging - damage to the skin from chronic exposure to sunlight - and skin cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is welcoming proposals for food and medicine made from genetically engineered animals and will come up with rules for such products to ensure public and animal health.

The move announced Thursday paves way for such company as Boston-based Aqua Bounty Technologies to get approval in producing and selling its faster-growing salmon. The firm has the technology to transfer DNA from a fast-growing eel-like fish to the genes of salmon to make the fish grow in one year instead of three years

A disaster watchdog has criticized the no ice policy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) saying the health of Hurricane Ike victims in Texas are threatened without the food and medicine preservative.

"It's frustrating that the government can deliver $85 billion to bail out AIG, and they can't deliver ice in Texas," Ben Smilowitz, executive director of the Disaster Accountability Project (DAP), told ABC News. DAP, a nonpartisan organization that monitors the nation's disaster response system, has been receiving calls from Ike victims on where to get ice to preserve medicines like insulin for diabetics

Canada's largest publicly listed pharmaceutical company Biovail Corp. acquired U.S. privately held Prestwick Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $100 million, a move that would allow the Canadian drug maker to change its focus to central nervous system medication.

Prestwick holds the Canadian and U.S. rights to Xenazine, a drug used to treat chorea, an illness related to Huntington's disease, a rare genetic disorder that could lead to memory loss, uncontrolled movements and death. The drug is approved by the Food and Drugs Administration

Bisphenol A (BPA), the most controversial chemical widely used in baby bottles, plastic food and drink containers, has been linked for the first time with increased rates of heart disease, diabetes and liver abnormalities in adults.

A team of British toxicologists analysed findings from an American survey of 1,455 adults and found that adults with the highest concentrations of BPA in their urine had nearly triple the odds of cardiovascular disease, compared with those with the least amounts of the compound in their systems