This escalation of disease rates coincides with a surge in synthetic chemical and plastics production ... "There's an ancient axiom in medicine and toxicology that the dose makes the poison ...

The number of children dying to diseases has surged in the past half century as the manufacturing of synthetic chemicals has ...

Plastic is unavoidable in today's world. We wear clothes made of it, encase our food in it, and fill our homes with it. The benefits of the omnipresent material are clear: It's cheap to create, ...

Then came cheekbone-lifts, nose jobs “and so on”. The plastic pilgrimage has become so common that Mr Makhlouf, who is 29, says he no longer knows “anyone who hasn’t gotten plastic surgery”.