Cancer risk can be cut with good habits.
There was a time when "cancer" was a word that was only whispered in polite society. It was the devastating, invidious illness that almost nothing could be done about. Today, we know a great deal more about cancer - yet many of us are still reluctant to engage the topic in our daily lives.
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...
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.
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.
The scary link between chicken and fibroids.
Some gynecologists advise women to refrain from eating too many non-organic meat products, which could possibly lead to the worsening of uterine fibroids.
Company cited often for lead in jewelry.
As Americans buy more and more products from China and other countries with weaker consumer safety regulations, the case of Rainbow Apparel shows the persistence of lead contamination and, in turn, the potential dangers for unsuspecting consumers.
Breast cancer: The risk factors you can control.
For the vast majority of women who worry about their breast cancer risk but are wary of taking medicine, researchers and breast cancer specialists can dispense some helpful but ultimately limited advice.
Permeable boundaries: How mothers’ meds affect a fetus.
We are all too aware of the fetus’s vulnerability, in which the placenta seems not an unbreachable barrier but the merest wisp. What is the placenta capable of blocking, I wonder, and what does it allow to pass through?
Gender bending chemicals in plastics ‘raises risk of prostate cancer’.
A gender-bending chemical found in babies' bottles may raise their odds of prostate cancer in later life, scientists have warned.
Blumenauer asks feds to investigate hair-care products with formaldehyde.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., on Tuesday asked federal agencies to investigate two hair-smoothing products shown in recent Oregon tests to contain high levels of formaldehyde, even when labeled "formaldehyde-free."
