Stressful Experiences Seen Driving the Incidence of Breast Cancer in Young Women According to researchers, as young women encounter stressful events in life, like loss of a close relative, severe illness or job loss, their risk for developing breast cancer improves as well. In addition, moderate or mild events seem to have a cumulative effect.

Although it was noted that genera...

Nope… it’s not basketball or softball. And although schools eliminated gymnastics teams due to high liability costs over 20 years ago, girl’s sports are gradually introducing more and more routines that incorporate soaring acrobatics.

But gymnastics is not the culprit.

Accounting for as much as two-thirds of severe school-sports injuries over th...

I know loads of people who hit the fad diet trail hard… look fantastic just mere months later, but a year later look as they did at the outset of the whole process.

Sure, type 1 diabetics get the basic principles after reading the first 100 pages of South Beach Diet, where they so clearly cover the fundamentals of blood glucose spikes and why excess carbs in baked goods...

On the heels of a recent study, researchers are claiming that odors emitted by the skin could be helpful in identifying basal cell carcinomas.  It seems that the air above such tumors has been found to include a different chemical composition (and related odor) versus the skin in healthy subjects. 

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I had the pleasure of meeting Ryan Malone today. Ryan’s passion came as the result of an experience that arose in 2005 as he and his fiancé were returning from celebrating their engagement in Greece. Sharing stories with friends, his cell phone rang and although the originating number was his mother’s home, there was a paramedic on the line.

His mother had...

By 2030, 71 million Americans will be 65 or older. If the cost of staying in an assisted-living facility escalates by only 6% annually (it’s been increasing 13% since 2006 in Alabama) the cost will increase from $3,241 today to $12,380 by 2030. (That’s per month.)

How many decades have products been on the market hawking their ability to improve the appearance of cellulite? On RealSelf.com, where beauty information is the talk of the site, cellulite treatments are the frequent source of highly vocal complaints. And despite this, the market for cellulite-fighting equipment is expected to grow to from $80 million last year to $200 million by 2012, ac...

As Japanese plastic surgeons do with frequent regularity... jabbing and plunging long, thick needles into their patients breasts, their attentive assistants crank the handles of canisters filled with an orange colored, stem cell-enriched fat concoction from each woman's own body.

You guessed it… breast enhancement surgery is now benefiting from stem cell technology....

A new station on XM radio called The Pink Channel is launching. It's the first radio network dedicated to supporting the fight against cancers that affect women. It will feature pop hits from the '70s, '80s and '90s, as well as segments on health and wellness and cancer survivor stories. Premiere Radio Networks and City of Hope Cancer Center have joined to create the Pink Ch...