Nothing says independence like eating an unnaturally pink finger of processed meat. The color of a hot dog is weird, sure, but would you have it any other way? On July 4, an estimated 150 million hot ...

Young people are increasingly turning to sodium nitrite and nitrate as a method of suicide after buying the products online, ...

A medical examiner report revealed this week that Empire actress Lindsey Pearlman died by suicide in February from sodium nitrite poisoning—and she’s not alone. Her death is part of an alarming trend ...

Colorado lawmakers heard powerful testimony Tuesday about a bill aimed at saving lives. The measure would regulate a food preservative that is lethal in its concentrated form. The preservative, sodium ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at outlawing a poison that dozens of young people have used to die by suicide. House Bill 1209 passed out of the ...

Young people are increasingly turning to sodium nitrite and nitrate as a method of suicide after buying the products online, according to ...

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 nitrite, so he searched it on the internet ...

Despite what has been shown in animal models, the administration of sodium nitrite to patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest does not significantly improve survival to hospital admission or to ...

Greater daily exposure to nitrites in food and water may increase the risk for type 2 diabetes, French researchers reported. Compared with those in the lowest tertile of total nitrite exposure (mean 3 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington’s Supreme Court will decide whether online retailer Amazon can be held liable for suicide deaths linked to products purchased from its platform. Twenty-eight families have ...