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.
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.
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....
Top stories of 2010: The oil spill and beyond.
In 2010, journalists devoted an extraordinary amount of resources to the largest spill in U.S. history, writing tens of thousands of articles on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Path to obesity may begin before birth.
Mounting evidence suggests that what a mother eats, what contaminants she's exposed to and how active she is during pregnancy have a profound effect on her offspring's weight and wellness later in life.
Smoking tied to miscarriage risk.
A new study may offer women one more reason to kick the smoking habit before becoming pregnant: a potentially reduced risk of early miscarriage.
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
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.
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.
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...
