Certain commonly used skin creams like moisturizers induced skin cancer in experiments on mice, a study released Thursday said, and experts are checking to see if they might cause growths in people as well.

Allan Conney and colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey said they tested four common skin creams on gene-altered hairless mice exposed to heavy doses of cancer-causing UV light

Air pollution has been identified as the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in Bangladesh, according to a new study.

"If the exposure to urban air pollution were reduced by 20 per cent to 80 per cent, it would result in saving 1,200 to 3,500 lives annually and avoiding 80 to 230 million cases of disease," said Country Environmental Assessment (2006) report released recently

A total of $355,000 was paid by nine firms as they were fined by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday for selling kid's clothes with drawstrings. In the past 20 years, dozens of children have been killed because of drawstrings caught on playground equipment, cribs and other objects, commission spokesman Scott Wolfson said.

The commission reported that a 2-year-old boy died on May 21 in San Jose, CA, after his sweatshirt's drawstring was caught on a slide in a daycare center. In another incident, a drawstring around the waist of a jacket got caught in a bus door, killing some children

Serrano peppers from Mexico are now being linked to the salmonella outbreak in the U.S. after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the bacteria strain at a Mexican farm growing the hot chili.

The salmonella Saintpaul strain found in the irrigation water and serrano peppers grown at a farm in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, prompted the FDA to issue a public warning against eating serranos

A medical disaster caused by a likely shortage of medical isotopes looms due to the shutdown of the Chalk River National Research Universal reactor.

Fifty percent of the global supplies of raw materials for medical isotopes are obtained from the Chalk River reactor, which was closed because it failed to meet licensing requirements that seven upgrades be fully operational by Dec. 31, 2005