Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Kevin A medical examiner report revealed this week that Empire actress Lindsey Pearlman died by suicide in February from ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At first, Bruce Brown thought the substance in his son’s room was a performance supplement, like the plastic bottles alongside it. He’d never heard of sodium ...

New legislation in Albany would ban retailers like Amazon from selling sodium nitrite, a common meat preservative linked to youth suicides across the country. “It’s basically like the suicide poison ...

Sodium nitrite is a yellowish-white, odorless powder. You may notice that a small amount of it is in certain foods. But if you consume too much of it, it can be deadly. Unfortunately, in the last few ...

There has been an "emerging trend" in the use of sodium nitrite for suicides Such cases were rare in the past There are concerns over its easy access through online platforms Health experts are ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French parliament has approved a bill that aims to gradually reduce the use of nitrite in cured meats and has ordered a review of the potential health risks by the end of June.

As scrutiny of nitrites grows, Ben Cornwell examines the evidence, how current UK and EU regulations differ and what's ...

A recent increase in fatal sodium nitrite poisonings has some health experts calling for stricter regulation of the substance. Sodium nitrite is a white salt commonly used in curing meat. But in ...

Bacon has always required a certain amount of nutritional denial. It’s salty, fatty, processed meat and, according to the World Health Organisation, something better treated as an occasional pleasure ...

"Nitrates" and "nitrites" sound like the same word split into two different forms. Most people treat them as the same thing, lumping beets, spinach, and cured deli meats into a vague category of ...