Formaldehyde shows up in beauty products not because brands want to alarm consumers, but because it has long been used to preserve formulas and prevent dangerous bacterial growth. While pure ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Do you know what is in the air you breathe? According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the most cancer-causing chemical you're breathing is formaldehyde. FOX13 learned ...

EPA’s draft risk evaluation for formaldehyde preliminarily finds that formaldehyde poses an unreasonable risk to human health. The draft risk evaluation preliminarily concludes formaldehyde does not ...

CHICAGO -- A move by the federal government may lead to some hair straighteners pulled from shelves, including products most popular with African American women. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to ban formaldehyde as an ingredient in chemical hair straighteners, also known as relaxers. Theresa Werner, MD, deputy director of Huntsman Cancer ...

Formaldehyde's toxicity was presumed to derive from its ability to crosslink DNA, but that happens only at huge doses. Recent discoveries that formaldehyde is found in the body in small amounts led a ...