Pregnant women tend to be very cautious about what they put in their bodies, and unfortunately, vaccinations are no exception.
Pregnant women are renowned for avoiding any substance, food or ingredient that they believe might pose the slightest threat of harm to their unborn child. Traditionally, the list of shunned products has included medications, coffee or tea (or both), even a drop of alcohol, and needless to say, cigarette smoke.
Medical screening tests have become something of a double-edged sword: Though they can alert patients to certain medical conditions, more often, these tests are unnecessary and lead to needless anxiety and over-treatment.
It s always refreshing to see a journalist stand up for sound science, especially since it so rarely happens. That s why we d like to make note of Trevor Butterworth s latest op-ed in Forbes. In it, Butterworth intelligently critiques New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff s hollow, politically driven campaign against chemicals.
Compared to their normal-weight counterparts, overweight and obese women who were previously diagnosed with breast cancer are more likely to have their disease return or to die of cancer. Those are the results of a new observational study, published in the journal Cancer, which investigates the link between weight and breast cancer.
As breast cancer research continues to make news, take a moment to catch up on the latest in a two-part series of op-eds by our very own Dr. Ross, featured on Examiner.com.
You can read them both in their entirety here and here.
In a unanimous ruling on Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit upheld an earlier court decision permitting the use of federal funding for research involving already-derived embryonic stem cells. Since no human embryos are destroyed in such research, the court ruled that these studies may continue receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health and other federal sources.
Imagine a sensor about the size of a grain of salt that, once swallowed, can transmit details about your heart rate and physical activity levels and track your adherence to a drug regimen. This technology, imagined by Proteus Digital Health, Inc., is now a reality that was approved just last month by the FDA.
As the summer season draws to a close, students and parents are making their annual back-to-school shopping trips, stocking up on pencils, notebooks, and backpacks. But before you pick up that Dora the Explorer backpack, the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) wants the public to know that the popular Disney, Spiderman, and Dora branded children s products (among others) are actually quite dangerous. Why? Because they re laced with toxic phthalates, of course.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported on the rising rates of melanoma, noting that this often deadly disease now most commonly affects young women. These statistics may not be so surprising after a study by IBISWorld revealed that white women between the ages of 18 and 21 are in the lead when it comes to using indoor tanning beds. In fact, an amazing 32 percent of white women admit to having done so, and the total number of tanners in the U.S. has been estimated at 28 million!
