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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.How Important Was it for Jason Reitman to be a Part of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?People living near plants that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment have for years pressured regulators to crack down on their toxic emissions. Residents in communities from Laredo, Texas, to Willowbrook, Illinois, have tried to shut these facilities down, challenged them in court, and fought for air-sampling studies to measure their…

Acne products from brands including Proactiv, Target Corp.’s Up & Up and Clinique have elevated levels of the carcinogen, an independent testing laboratory said in a petition filed with the US Food and Drug Administration late Tuesday. The lab asked the FDA to recall the affected treatments — all of which contain the active ingredient benzoyl peroxide — while regulators investigate.  Benzene is a natural component of gasoline and tobacco smoke and can cause leukemia in high…

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The artificial sweetener aspartame is now considered “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” declared the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which evaluates substances’ risk of causing cancer, late on Thursday EDT. The agency specifically found that consumption of artificially sweetened beverages was associated with an increased risk of a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma. The ruling does not mean you need to stop consuming all aspartame-containing products, nor does it change the…

CLIMATEWIRE | Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, emitting more of the known carcinogen than present in secondhand smoke, according to a new study. The study — recently published in Environmental Science & Technology — is the first to examine benzene levels inside homes with gas stoves. It comes as battles grow over state and local efforts to phase out the appliances. Researchers sampled the air of California and Colorado homes with gas ovens and cooktops, comparing it to the air in homes with electric ones.…

A sedentary lifestyle is basically a lifestyle where a person spends most of his/her time in one comfortable position and does not indulge in much physical activity. Medical experts claim that this…