ConsumerWatch: Oakland Group Finds Banned Flame Retardant In Baby Products
A cancer-causing chemical banned more than three decades ago is turning up in baby products found nationwide.
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A cancer-causing chemical banned more than three decades ago is turning up in baby products found nationwide.
A Bay Area athlete's battle with lung cancer has inspired a unique journey to raise awareness and funds to combat the disease.
The death of a vivacious Bay Area woman provides a powerful example of the need for early cancer screenings and prevention.
America's favorite dietary supplements, multivitamins, modestly lowered the risk for cancer in healthy male doctors who took them for more than a decade, the first large study to test these pills has found.
It turns out that Mitt Romney made millions and saved the company he was running by peddling cigarettes in the former Soviet Union and in the United States in the early 90s.
Pets, like humans, are at risk for cancer.
Dozens of weight loss and immune system supplements on the market are illegally labeled and lack the recommended scientific evidence to back up their purported health claims, government investigators warn in a new review of the $20 billion supplement industry.
Republican congressional candidate Doug LaMalfa is backing off a claim that he made that women who have abortions are more likely to get cancer.
The health care giant late last year pledged to remove "chemicals of concern" from its baby products sold around the world. That change came after a large coalition of health and environmental groups began pressing J&J more than three years ago to make its personal care products safer.
A 41-year-old San Jose fire Captain died of a rare form of cancer on Friday after nearly 11 years with the department.
A San Francisco woman isn't letting cancer treatment slow her down. In fact, this week's Jefferson Award winner is still doing everything she can to help others in the same position.
Republican politicians continue to work against HPV vaccination despite its ability to prevent thousands of cases of cervical cancer and resulting deaths.
Gov. Jerry Brown has booted a doctor from a state advisory panel after she appeared in industry-funded television ads slamming a proposed tobacco tax to fund cancer research.
Local celebrities and those in the music community are in mourning over the loss of fellow musician/rapper, Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys...
A college professor and mother of two with a serious illness said a Bay Area hospital denied potentially life-prolonging treatment, despite approval from her insurance company.
Longtime Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack, whose work is heard on the hits "Listen To The Music" and "China Grove," died of cancer at age 65, his manager said Tuesday.
It's a perfect recipe: students learning to cook healthy, organic food, to create meals to feed cancer patients. It's called The Ceres Community Project. It started in Sonoma, and thanks to two determined women, it's expanded and taken hold in Marin too.
John Madden remembers the great 49ers wide receiver as a happy guy who always had a bounce in his step. Freddie Solomon, the former Miami Dolphins and 49ers wide receiver who became known as "Fabulous Freddie" and committed himself to community service died this week at the age of 59.
A new commentary published online in the Feb. 1 issue of Nature says sugar is just as "toxic" for people as the other two, so the government should step in to curb its consumption.
Scientists from the University of California San Francisco, Kaiser Permanente, and China have teamed up to study a molecular test that could give more patients a chance to be cured of lung cancer.
17-year-old Angela Zhang of Cupertino is a typical American teenager. But there is one thing that separates her from every other student at Monta Vista High School.
For the past year, Nancy Ballard has been transforming cancer treatment rooms one by one to bring beauty where it's truly appreciated.
San Francisco firefighters and community members are pulling together to help the family of a Modesto teen who died of leukemia at a local hospital on Friday.
Patricia Dunn, the former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman who authorized a boardroom surveillance probe that ultimately sullied her remarkable rise from investment bank typist to the corporate upper class, has died. She was 58.
The music of a Super Mario video game drifts through the rooms of the Pediatric Oncology unit at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. It's a welcome sound to parents Matt and Dana Croghan, who are all too familiar with what it's like for young patients here.
