A California man is suing the candy maker Mars, alleging Skittles contains a “known toxin,” making the popular candy “unfit for human consumption.” On Thursday, San Leandro resident Jenile Thames filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Attorneys for Thames said Skittles were unsafe for consumers because they contain “heightened... 

A Democrat judge has sentenced a 69-year-old cancer patient to prison for attending the January 6 2020 protests in support of President Trump. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweeted about the ordeal, including a video of Pamela Hemphill from just before she was turning herself in to serve two months in jail. Pamela Hemphill, 69 yr old cancer patient, going to jail for one misdemeanor count of demonstrating,... 

On their own, both ginger and chili are delicious spices with well-known health benefits. Ginger is used in traditional medicine to relieve common health complaints like digestive issues and nausea. On the other hand, chili peppers help boost your mood, metabolism and immune system. Both ginger and chili peppers can also improve blood circulation. According to an animal study, combining certain compounds... 

Every rectal cancer patient in a small clinical drug trial conducted by New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has seen their cancer go into remission after receiving an experimental immunotherapy treatment. The findings were published by researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine on June 5th. One of the participants in the trial, Sascha Roth, told the New York Times that she... 

New research has found that the average person consumes a credit card’s worth of plastic particles every single week through tainted food and water – and the vast majority of people have no clue that it is even happening. Nanoplastic particles that are less than 0.001 millimeters in size plague the modern food and water supply, as do slightly larger microplastics that are 0.001 to 5 millimeters... 

Johnson & Johnson has been accused of trying to suppress speech by asking a judge to block the Reuters news agency from publishing a story about the pharmaceutical giant’s legal strategy to counter lawsuits claiming that its Baby Powder is a cause of cancer. “The First Amendment is not a license to knowingly violate the law,” J&J said in a court filing in New Jersey this week. The filing... 

The EU has marked World Cancer Day with a pledge to address “disparities and inequalities between member states”. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that 100 million cancer screening tests weren’t carried out due to the impact of the Covid pandemic on health services, delaying diagnoses and referrals for treatment across the continent. “This means that an estimated... 

The Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver British Columbia reportedly served an eviction notice to children battling serious illness who haven’t taken the COVID injection. Austin Furgason, the father of a 4-year-old boy with leukemia who’s been undergoing treatment for months, posted the notice on Facebook showing the Ronald McDonald House Charities announcing the evictions. “All tenants, adults... 

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has issued a voluntary recall of nearly three dozen of its aerosol hair products after recent reports that indicated traces of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical. The company said on the website of the US Food and Drug Administration that it had begun a full review of its aerosol products under the Aussie, Herbal Essences, Pantene and Waterless brands. Previously discontinued... 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an alert warning Americans to immediately dispose of a popular brand of hand sanitizer that has been found to cause cancer. In a statement, the FDA said it found “unacceptable levels of benzene, acetaldehyde and acetal contaminants” in numerous artnaturals scent-free hand sanitizers. The sanitizers are labeled with “DIST. by artnaturals Gardena,... 

More than half of popular cosmetics being sold in the US and Canada are likely to contain high levels of toxic chemicals called polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a new study has warned. Researchers from Notre Dame University tested more than 200 products including concealers, foundations, eye and eyebrow products and lip products, and found evidence of PFAS in around half (52 per cent) of them. Worryingly,... 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has hit out at South Korean pop culture, calling it a ‘vicious cancer’ and introducing harsher punishments for those caught listening to K-pop or watching dramas from the South. South Korean music, television shows and movies are enjoying unprecedented popularity around the world – including in totalitarian North Korea where cultural life is strictly... 

The Russian president is the world’s sickest leader, if you believe reports in Western media, that is. Popular US and UK outlets are now claiming Vladimir Putin has Parkinson’s, underwent secret surgery and is battling cancer. While many have found 2020 to be a challenging year, for notorious Moscow conspiracy theorist Valery Solovey, it has been his best yet. He has managed to send Western news... 

MSNBC producer Ariana Pekary explained that the reason for her deciding to quit her job was that the mainstream media blocks “diversity of thought” in favor of promoting hysterical voices for ratings and that a TV veteran admitted to her “we are a cancer and there is no cure.” Pekary, who was an “integral member” of Lawrence O’Donnell’s primetime show, says that the media’s obsession... 

Peter Andrews is an Irish science journalist and writer, based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Genetics. Each year, more than 6,500 cases of bladder cancer, roughly five percent of all cases in Europe, are found to be attributable to exposure to trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water – and it’s all perfectly legal. For...