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(MedPage Today) -- Exposure to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) -- chemicals used in many consumer products -- appears to be associated with reduced immune responses to routine childhood vaccines, researchers found.

Handwashing at work doesn’t just keep germs at bay.

A new study shows office workers who frequently lather up have lower levels of hormone-disrupting flame retardant chemicals on their hands and in their blood.

Children in California have high levels of flame-retardant chemicals in their bodies, and they appear to be exposed to these chemicals through household dust and food, a new study shows.

Women exposed to high levels of chemicals called perfluorocarbons (PFCs) may enter menopause earlier, new research suggests.

Study found that kids with the highest levels of two chemicals had elevated cholesterol levels.

Dogs may be able to sniff out the smell of chemicals released into urine by prostate tumors, setting the stage for a new means of early prostate cancer detection.

Americans are being "bombarded" with chemicals, gases and radiation that can cause cancer, and the federal government must do far more to protect them, presidential cancer advisers said on Thursday.

An expert panel that advises the president on cancer said Thursday that Americans are facing "grievous harm" from chemicals in the air, food and water that have largely gone unregulated and ignored.

(American Cancer Society) A new report from an American Cancer Society scientific advisory subcommittee on cancer and the environment says exposure to carcinogens should be minimized or eliminated whenever feasible, and calls for new strategies to more effectively and efficiently screen the large number of chemicals to which the public is exposed.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Marijuana smoke has joined tobacco smoke and hundreds of other chemicals on a list of substances California regulators say cause cancer....