A new study suggests that higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine may be linked to a slightly shorter lifespan, ...

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ACSH is honored to welcome Dr. Katie Suleta to our Board of Scientific Advisors. A long-time writer for ACSH, she brings a ...

Most women have a sense that alcohol is “bad for breast cancer risk.” What is far less understood are the actual numbers—and ...

For centuries, childbirth’s pain was explained as punishment; more recently, as the evolutionary price of walking upright and ...

GLP-1 drugs have been accused of stealing muscle along with fat, but the evidence suggests the scare may say more about ...

The EPA’s decision to end the use of IRIS for developing chemical risk assessments is a fundamental change in how the agency will decide what chemical hazards mean for regulation. By returning hazard ...

We’ve heard some pretty absurd things from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but his claim that circumcision, possibly in ...

Antibiotic resistance is a moving target, and even the most successful drugs eventually lose their edge. Around the turn of ...

Chemophobia treats chemistry itself as contamination while ignoring toxicology’s most basic principle: the dose makes the ...

We live in a complex chemical landscape in which risks are notoriously difficult to evaluate. It can be pretty hairy to understand. Until recently, I had not given any thought to hair extensions, ...