Health-care overhaul supports research on breast cancer in young women.
Breast cancer is extremely rare in young women. But when it does happen, it can be deadly. A little-noticed section in the health-care overhaul aims to raise awareness among young women and their doctors about the risk of breast cancer between the ages...
Levels of worrisome chemical higher in female cashiers.
Research published Friday indicates that bisphenol A levels in pregnant women vary widely. Scientists examined BPA levels in urine samples from 386 pregnant women in Cincinnati. About 90% of the women had detectable levels of bisphenol A.
Girls as young as 7 hitting puberty, US study finds.
Females appear to be hitting puberty earlier, perhaps due to rising obesity rates and common chemicals found in plastic, a new study suggests.
U.S. advisers to guide breast cancer research.
The National Institutes of Health named a committee on Monday to help guide research into the environmental and genetic causes of breast cancer.
Smoking link to ectopic pregnancy.
A chemical in cigarette smoke has been found to cause a reaction which can lead to ectopic pregnancies, according to Edinburgh scientists.
After hairstylist becomes suspicious of Brazilian Blowout, tests find formaldehyde.
Molly Scrutton's concerns over Brazilian Blowout, a hair smoother, led state and federal authorities in the United States and Canada to test the product for formaldehyde.
Study finds puberty arriving earlier in girls.
Some young girls, barely into grade school, are showing the first signs of puberty. A study published this week in the journal Pediatrics finds that early puberty is far more common now than just a decade ago.
The dangers that lurk in your make-up bag.
When two journalists discovered that formaldehyde was the miracle agent behind their sleek hair-dos, they decided to dig a little further into their beauty products' ingredient lists. What they found was terrifying. That lipstick? That mascara? All ful...
The dangers of a ubiquitous food chemical: new evidence.
Bisphenol A, America's most demonized food-packaging chemical, nationally debated and being considered for a federal ban under an amendment of the food safety bill, S. 510, may be even worse than anyone imagined, a new peer-reviewed study finds.
Coming clean about household cleaners.
Cleaning companies are notoriously secretive about the chemical contents of their products. But now, New York is reviving a 1976 law that requires manufacturers to disclose chemical ingredients in household cleaners.
