LONDON – The insecticide lindane, once widely used in agriculture and to treat human lice and scabies, causes cancer and has been specifically linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the World Health ...

Thirty-seven years ago, state and federal agriculture officials launched a massive attack on the pink bollworm, spraying the powerful insecticide DDT on 65,000 acres of Maricopa County cotton. From ...

LOS ANGELES – While the United States outlawed DDT 30 years ago during a wave of environmental activism, some health experts don't want the United Nations to follow the same path, and are imploring ...

The insecticide DDT has been very successfully used for many years in malaria control programmes around the world. We assess the validity of the allegations that DDT is harmful to human health and the ...

Chemicals related to, but different from, DDT could be off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula — and they could be even more dangerous the original insecticide. That’s according to scientists who ...

A household question of effectiveness insecticide spray on mosquitoes has left policymakers pondering too. Mosquitoes genes have developed resistance to some insecticides, admit experts. A team of ...