Woman having ear pain touching her ears.

Tepezza is a prescription drug used for treating thyroid eye disease (TED) and is manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Horizon Therapeutics. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Tepezza to treat TED after an initial trial showed its effectiveness, making it the first drug approved to treat TED at its source. However, additional studies have uncovered troubling […]

Hairdresser using hair relaxer to client.

For decades, hair relaxers have been pushed by the cosmetics industry as a safe way to straighten naturally curled or wavy hair. However, emerging research indicates using chemical straighteners to “relax” hair is linked to a heightened risk of developing uterine cancer and other serious illnesses. Women are over-represented among impacted individuals, especially women of color. Jenny […]

A jury in a California state court recently awarded a $289 million verdict to a 46-year-old man, Dewayne Johnson, who claimed that Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused him to develop cancer. According to Reuters, the case is the first one to go to trial out of an estimated 8,000 Roundup weed killer lawsuits which have […]