Toxic chemicals designed to prevent household objects from catching fire can be rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream via the skin. These flame-retardant chemicals, such as polybrominated diphenyl ...

Microplastics, which are less than 5 millimeters wide -- or about the size of a pencil eraser, can enter the human body through the mouth, nose and other body cavities. Getty Images This might make ...

A nine-year-old girl in Kerala’s Kozhikode district died of amoebic encephalitis, a rare brain infection, spread through brain-eating amoeba. The girl was admitted to a hospital with fever on August ...