Really?: The Claim: Poinsettias Can Be Poisonous
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The plant gained a reputation for deadliness in 1919, when a boy died and the cause was mistakenly attributed to poinsettia ingestion.
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A compound in the fruits acted as effectively as a commercial drug used to reduce levels of the &quot;bad&quot; form of cholesterol in rodents.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it would look into claims from an advocacy group that certain lipsticks contain potentially dangerous levels of lead. Similar claims in the past have not been confirmed, the agency said.
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Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people donât eat them.
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Dec. 14, 2004 - One in five Ayurvedic medicines contain toxic levels of lead, mercury, or arsenic. The products put users at risk for metal poisoning, researchers say.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned the maker of tropical fruit drink XanGo over claims the beverage can prevent or treat cancer, depression, infection, Alzheimer's disease and other ailments.
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Why didn&#39;t Bush outright prohibit the research, if he truly believed destroying embryos is killing? BY RAMESH PONNURU. Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at the National Review.
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Life & style: How healthy can something be with eight teaspoons of sugar in it? Emine Saner on flavoured water.
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George H.W. Bush: Call your dermatologist. New research suggests that broccoli, the vegetable that the former president famously demonized as inedible, can prevent the damage from ultraviolet light that often leads to skin cancer. And as Bush would surely appreciate, he would not even have to eat...
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Dec. 5, 2004 -- New research is raising concerns about the safety of a preservative that is commonly found in shampoos and other commercially available cosmetics.
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Scientists have claimed that essential oils usually used in aromatherapy can kill the hospital &#39;superbug&#39;, MRSA. According to researchers at the University of Manchester, tests carried out
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By eamonn holmes  I READ an article this week about the hidden dangers in cosmetics, the chemicals used in them and what health problems they are linked to. Quite honestly it was pretty scary.
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Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did &#151; inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.
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NEW YORK  - Tea made from Chinese star  anise -- a traditional treatment for colic -- should not be  given to infants, because contaminants may have toxic  neurologic effects, physicians report in the journal  Pediatrics.
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A compound in blueberries appears to be effective in lowering cholesterol, according to a study using cells from rat livers. The compound, called pterostilbene, has the potential to be developed into a natural
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Maria didn't mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite. Worried about her daughters' lack of appetite, the young Houston mother was merely following her grandmother's advice when she gave the two girls and a niece a dose of "greta" Â a Mexican folk medicine used to treat children's stomach ailments.
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A new report says your baby's bottle may contain a potentially toxic chemical. Should consumers do something about it?