A new study validated that a significant hidden health hazard is affecting millions of Americans, with children most at risk.

Gasoline, auto emissions, cigarette smoke: All contain benzene (search), a toxin whose chronic exposure, even at relatively low doses, has been linked to leukemia. Now, research shows that airborne ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Benzene exposure length and the amount of time since exposure impacted the odds for lung cancer. An elevated ...

The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) proposes to reduce the eight-hour time-weighted average exposure threshold limit value (TLV) for benzene to 0.02 ppm and reduce ...

RIFLE, Colorado – Area residents made it clear on Thursday that they are worried about the toxic possibilities associated with a large plume of hydrocarbons near an oil and gas production plant up ...

Chemicals are all around us: in the air, in the Earth’s crust, in the ocean. Though they are sometimes depicted as bad, they are essential in many applications, including pharmaceutical and ...

Extrapolation of adverse health outcomes from epidemiologic or toxicological studies in animals at high doses in which metabolites are the biologically active agents to low-level environmental ...

My boyfriend spends a lot of time working on motorbikes. Occasionally, say every couple of months, he cleans bike parts using benzene, and sometimes this splashes on his skin & clothes. The fumes are ...

Shell Oil has won a lawsuit that alleged a man died after years of working at a gas station and being exposed to benzene. The case, Burst, et al v. Shell Oil Co., was dismissed in U.S. District Court ...