The dark side of beauty?
In recent years, watchdog organizations like the Environmental Working Group and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics have released reports looking at chemicals and additives in makeup, hair and skin products.
Indoor pollution: Silent and deadly.
After vaccines and bed nets, could the humble cooking stove be the next big idea to save millions of lives in poor countries? Hillary Clinton, America’s secretary of state, hopes so.
Ditch pink ribbon and focus on breast cancer prevention, group urges.
A Montreal group wants consumers to stop buying "pink ribbon" products and give money to organizations that fund breast cancer prevention research. The group contends that the Pink Ribbon campaign mainly benefits corporations, many of which sell products with ingredients linked to cancer.
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.
