Family planning helps women and slows climate change.
With women empowered to plan their pregnancies, the world's population grows more slowly, as do carbon emissions. Any strategy that enhances human health, dignity and empowerment while also reducing global warming is not just advisable, it's essential....
Oestrogen ‘may fuel oral cancer’ in young women.
The hormone oestrogen could be fuelling head and neck cancers in young women, explaining why the disease is on the increase in that group, a US team says.
Spacing babies close may raise autism risk.
Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children.
Eco-bulbs ‘a health hazard for babies and pregnant women due to mercury inside’.
Energy-saving light bulbs were at the centre of a fresh health scare last night after researchers claimed they can release potentially harmful amounts of mercury if broken.
French authorities pull hair straightener with high formaldehyde levels.
Cosmetics Design-Europe Katie Bird January 4, 2011 France’s health authority (Afsapps) has warned consumers and hairdressers against the use of hair straightening treatments that contain... Read More
Pregnant women often deny smoking.
Overall, about one in four women who smoke while pregnant deny it, a new study hints. The numbers could be even higher in certain groups of women, like those in their early 20s.
Mercury cancels brain benefits of fish oil, study confirms.
Prenatal mercury exposure from a mother's fish-rich diet can reduce the beneficial effects fish oil has on brain development, report an international group of researchers. The babies exposed in the womb to higher methyl mercury levels scored lower on s...
Eating lots of red meat ups women’s stroke risk.
Women who eat a lot of red meat may be putting themselves at increased risk of stroke, a new study in more than 30,000 Swedish women hints.
Pollutants’ passage from mother to child.
An international team of researchers has for the first time quantified how effectively mothers pass 87 common environmental contaminants to their children.
