The preamble articulates the mission and methods of the agency's Monographs program, and an update has been long overdue. But by doing so, other questions have emerged. Last month, the International ...

Converging evidence points to the agency's skewing its glyphosate report to reach a desired conclusion In March 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, issued a report labeling ...

Data are from Rumgay et al. 6 ICD-10 denotes International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. The number of new cases has been rounded to the nearest 100,000. The number of cases for each ...

Alcohol policy interventions, including those that increase alcohol taxes, raise the drinking and purchase age, reduce days or hours of sale, and impose strong marketing bans, reduce alcohol ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has recently announced that it will be evaluating three plasticizers between June 9-16 of 2026.[1] The additives to be evaluated include butyl ...

LONDON – In the spring of 2015, chemical engineer Melvyn Kopstein wrote to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to alert it to what he thought were serious flaws in its work.

LONDON – Thanks to scientists working under the auspices of the World Health Organization, you can be fairly sure your toothbrush won’t give you cancer. Over four decades, a WHO research agency has ...

As the World Health Organization's research arm declares glyphosate a probable carcinogen, Nature looks at the evidence. You have full access to this article via your institution. The cancer-research ...

As we’re in the midst of a reevaluation of whether the Virology Laboratory in Wuhan, China was the true source of the Covid-19 virus that caused the pandemic, a theory which the World Health ...

Atrazine, a widely used herbicide in the U.S., was recently classified as “probably carcinogenic” by the WHO’s IARC, ...