Warning: Formaldehyde found in popular hair treatments known as Brazilian Blowouts.
Scientists take a hard look at the chemicals lurking in Brazilian blowouts, aka Brazilian keratin treatments. Luckily, natural beauty and hair options abound.
Girls are starting puberty earlier and obesity is to blame, say experts.
Experts say the extra fat tissue is encouraging young bodies to produce hormones which kickstart sexual changes. Researchers in the U.S. found that one in ten girls aged seven had developed breast tissue, one of the first signs of puberty.
Climate change policy ignores women farmers.
Research has shown that women are more likely to feel the effects of climate change because they have less access to resources. Changing weather patterns increase poor women’s work burden on gathering water and firewood.
Mammograms’ value in cancer fight at issue.
A new study suggests that increased awareness and improved treatments rather than mammograms are the main force in reducing the breast cancer death rate.
Apples or pears … it’s all in the genes ladies, not the diet.
For apple-shapes like Sophie Dahl who struggle to stay slim the news may come as a blow – a woman’s shape is not determined by diet but by 13 inherited genes.
Study: Quality of breast cancer care in Chicago area isn’t uniform.
New report on Chicago-area hospitals is viewed as a step toward understanding and correcting an alarming racial disparity in breast cancer death rates in the city.
Western lifestyle ‘to blame for soaring breast cancer rates.’
Britian's high number of breast cancer cases is being fuelled by the Western lifestyle that encourages women to over-eat, drink too much and exercise too little, say new figures.
Nicotine in cigarettes linked to breast cancer for the first time.
The substance that makes cigarettes addictive may also cause the growth of cancer tumours, scientists revealed today. It is the first time nicotine has been implicated as one of the chemicals in cigarettes that can trigger the development of breast can...
All pregnant women should get flu shot, say ob-gyns.
Despite landing in the hospital more often if they catch the flu, no more than a quarter of pregnant women in the U.S. get vaccinated against it. There have been no reports of side effects from thimerosal in pregnant women or their babies, but it is re...
Bad life habits raise your risk of getting cancer.
Whenever discussion arises about Delaware's higher-than-average cancer rate, the state's history of high pollution levels and environmental contaminants are usually cited as anecdotal – if not scientific – reasons. There's not nearly as much talk a...
