Omaha Sen. Bob Krist won’t be getting the $650,000 he wanted for a lung cancer study involving veterans — the state budget is just too tight.

Read more: Cancer study bill dropped, now aimed at lead-based paint removal grant.

Britain’s biggest infant-products retailers are selling baby bottles made with a chemical banned by Canada and three US states and which scientists fear may cause breast cancer, heart disease, obesity, hyperactivity and other disorders, The Independent can disclose.

Read more: Scandal of danger chemical in baby bottles.

Exposing a female fetus to a chemical found in plastics causes permanent changes in a daughter’s uterus that might result in cancer — and a research team led by a Yale doctor has figured out why.

Read more: Yale study details how and why of BPA’s dangers.

Mindy Brown is on a crusade to warn people about radiation from cell phones. It started after her husband, Fresno State football coach Dan Brown, developed brain cancer.

Read more: Advocates sound alarm on cell phone radiation.

The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on a bill that would make Maine the first state to carry warnings that cell phones can cause brain cancer.

Read more: Maine panel weighs cell phone cancer warning.

The environment ministry has it wrong – a proposed incinerator will harm, not help, Durham Region residents, a panel of opponents has warned, saying health and air quality will be seriously affected, leading to increased cancer rates, reproductive problems, and learning disabilities.

Read more: Anger mounts over incinerator plan.

Maine’s state Legislature could soon vote on a bill making the Northeast U.S. state the first to require that cellular phones carry warnings of a possible link between mobile phone radiation and brain cancer.

Read more: Maine lawmakers mull cell phone health warnings.

In the early 1980s, the cancer deaths of four little girls — whose bodies were so tiny they could fit in shoe boxes — forced Hazel Johnson to shift the focus of an organization she’d recently founded.

Read more: Far south side environmental activist Hazel Johnson and her daughter ‘decided to stay here and fight’.

Fruit juices drunk by millions of children each day could contain a harmful chemical linked to cancer, scientists have warned.

Read more: Cancer warning as scientists find potentially harmful chemical in fruit juices.

Southern Punjab is facing serious threat due to high-level arsenic contamination in the drinking water, which is causing cancer, still births, post-neonatal mortality and other diseases.

Read more: Arsenic-contaminated water threat to southern Punjab inhabitants.