A man in Australia gave himself cyanide poisoning while consuming apricot kernels meant to prevent his prostate cancer from returning. The 67-year-old apricot kernel extract every day for five years, ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Queens mother and son are facing fraud charges after selling a toxic product online that they claimed could cure cancer. Investigators say drums of hazardous materials were ...

Cancer cure quack Jason Vale is in another apricot jam. Vale, a professional arm wrestler already imprisoned once for selling apricot seeds as a cure for cancer, was arrested with his mother in a ...

We sometimes think that if you give people true, scientific information they will listen. But then that theory is blown away by a reality check, such as with the case of an Australian man who ...

OTTAWA, July 25, 2019 /CNW/ - Health Canada is reminding Canadians to limit their consumption of apricot kernels because of the risk of cyanide poisoning. Apricot kernels naturally contain amygdalin, ...

Advantage Health Matters Inc. is recalling Organic Traditions brand dried bitter apricot kernels from retailers nationwide in Canada because of excessive levels of a natural toxin that can cause ...

Raw apricot kernels are being recalled in New Zealand after three people needed hospital treatment. They were sold by Christchurch business Ethnic Market in Linwood. Sale of raw apricot kernels is ...

The highly dangerous appeal of eating apricot kernels as a form of self-medication are graphically illustrated by the story of an Australian man detailed in the British Medical Journal. The unnamed ...

On Monday, the BMJ published an odd case report: doctors diagnosed a man with cyanide poisoning, which he got from apricot kernel extract. The diagnosis comes on the heels of another case of cyanide ...

We sometimes think that if you give people true, scientific information they will listen. But then that theory is blown away by a reality check, such as with the case of an Australian man who ...