Be Warned: 'Fake tan causes fertility problems'

Daily Mail quoting a report warns that Fake tan users can have serious health problems due to harsh chemicals in the tan lotions.

A cocktail of ingredients in the creams include poisonous substances like cancer-causing formaldehyde and nitrosamines.

Pregnant women have also been warned the lotions cause a higher risk of birth defects.

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Sharp rise in newborns with opiate withdrawal in USA

The number of babies born in the US showing symptoms of opiate withdrawal increased threefold in the 10 years up to 2009, a medical study has found.

The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said one in every 1,000 newborns was affected in 2009.

The number of pregnant women testing positive for illegal or legal opiates increased fivefold in the same period.

The report says abuse of prescription painkillers is partly to blame. The study, the first of its kind in the US, was based on records from more than 4,000 hospitals across the country.

It found that in 2009, about 13,500 babies were born with withdrawal symptoms - roughly one every hour.

Read details: BBC News USA & Canada

Related: What is Opiate Withdrawal

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Gene test 'to predict breast cancer'

A genetic test could help predict breast cancer many years before the disease is diagnosed, experts hope.


The scientists from Imperial College London analysed blood samples from 1,380 women of various ages, 640 of whom went on to develop breast cancer. Ultimately the findings, in the journal Cancer Research, could lead to a simple blood test to screen women, they say.

The test looks for how genes are altered by environmental factors like alcohol and hormones - a process known as epigenetics.

One in five women is thought to have such a genetic "switch" that doubles breast cancer risk.

Read details: BBC News

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Delay Motherhood by freezing Ovaries for later 'use'

British women are to be  given the chance of delaying motherhood by freezing parts of their ovaries.

They will be able to ‘bank’ their ovarian tissue in their twenties  and early thirties, when it is most fertile, and have it re-implanted years later.

Fertility specialists are planning to open the first clinic in the country to offer the procedure, which could cost as much as £16,000, within the next six months.

Read more: Mail Online 

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Breast Implant: PIP boss Mas jailed for bail default

The founder of the French breast implant company at the heart of a global health scare has been jailed after failing to pay his bail.

Jean-Claude Mas, 72, was released on 100,000 euro (£83,000; $131,000) bail in January, facing a charge of "involuntary injury".

The French government has advised 30,000 women to have their PIP implants removed, a call repeated in several other countries, including Germany and the Czech Republic.

Read details: BBC News

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Smoke ban leads to decrease in Premature births in Scotland

Since Scotland introduced a ban on smoking in public places in 2006 there has been a 10% drop in the country's premature birth rate, say researchers.

They believe this is a smoke-free benefit that can be chalked up alongside others, like reductions in heart disease and childhood asthma.

Tobacco smoke has been linked to poor foetal growth and placenta problems.

Read more: BBC News Health

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1 In 5 U.S. Adults Had Mental Illness Last Year

One in five American adults has experienced mental illness in the last year, according to a new government report, with mental illness being more than twice as high among younger adults (ages 18 to 25) than older adults (age 50 and older).

The report, conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), showed that 29.9 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds experienced mental illness in the last year, compared with 14.3 percent of people age 50 and older.

In addition, women were more likely to have experienced mental illness than men in the last year, with 23 percent of women reporting mental illness compared with 16.8 percent of men.

Read more: Huffington Post

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Breast Implant Disaster: 50,000 women may have to get breast implants removed

[ via Mail Online ] 2 Jan

All women with faulty breast implants should have them removed given the 'uncertainty and lack of knowledge' about the extent of the problems, a leading surgeon warned today.

Tim Goodacre, a member of the Government-commissioned panel investigating the scandal, said the latest estimate of rupture rates was "very much higher" than he would consider acceptable

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About 50,000 British women are thought to have received the silicone implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) filled with gel meant for mattresses.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said the risk of rupture is only  one per cent, but a cosmetic surgery chain told ministers privately that the figure could be as high as eight per cent.

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The 50 Best Moments For Women In 2011

[ via Huffington Post ] 1 Jan

We have been reporting about many events that happened in 2011 - but none have been exclusive for women so far, even when three women became Nobel laureates during the year.

Huffington Post has taken the lead and has shared the 50 best moments for women in 2011 in a slide show on their recent post.

Watch the slide show Here

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FDA warned PIP on implant safety in 2000

[ via Yahoo News ] 27 Dec

Much to the disgust of PIP breast implant users, the report that U.S. health authorities had raised concerns about the French breast implant maker as early as 2000, adds injury to the insult.

The news would be a sad day for hundreds of thousands of women worldwide, who spent perhaps their fortunes to have the PIP implants.

The Food and Drug Administration sent an investigator to inspect a plant run by the manufacturer, Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), at La Seyne Sur Mer in southeastern France in May 2000. Shortly afterwards, the FDA sent the company's founder, Jean-Claude Mas, a warning letter saying the implants were "adulterated" and citing at least 11 deviations from good manufacturing practices.

While breast cancer suffering would suffer more, no one has been charged for the poor quality implants by the French government so far.

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French breast implant fears spread around world

[ via Reuters ] 22 Dec

Fears over the safety of breast implants made by a now defunct French firm spread to Australia, South America and across Europe on Thursday as French officials prepared to decide if thousands of women should have their implants surgically removed.


The silicone gel implants, made by a company called Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) that was shut down in 2010, appear to have an unusually high rupture rate and have sparked an investigation in France into possible links to cancer.

About 300,000 PIP implants, used in cosmetic surgery to enhance breast size or replace lost breast tissue, were sold worldwide before PIP went bust last year.

read more at: Reuters

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Thousands of British women told to 'have breast implants removed

[ via Mail Online ] 21 Dec

The French government is to foot the bill for tens of thousands of women to have their breast implants removed, amid fears they are at a heightened risk of cancer.

But a similar number of British women who also have the controversial implants face hefty surgical bills for the same treatment.

The row comes amid growing concern about the safety of the French-made implants, the Poly Implant Protheses, or PIPs, filled with a silicone gel believed to have been made for mattresses.

Read more: Mail Online

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10 weeks - 24 hours a day in a tilted bed: Only a Mother could do

[ via Mail Online ] 20 Dec

After suffering two miscarriages Donna Kelly was desperately worried that her next pregnancy would end the same way. And when doctors told her five months into the pregnancy that she was at high risk of losing another baby, she readily agreed to their radical solution.

Something only a mother could do - Kelly in her tilted bed (Photo: Sam Furlong / SWNS)

For ten weeks, 24 hours a day, she lay 'upside down' in a hospital bed until she gave birth to a healthy daughter, Amelia.

Ultrasound scans had shown that damage to the neck of her womb, or cervix, meant the baby had dropped too far down. To alter the force of gravity on her cervix, the 29-year-old lay in a bed tilted at a 45 degree angle with her feet pointing upwards.

Read more and see the photo of Kelly and Amelia for whom Kelly underwent this unique medical solution specific to her case 

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Former Miss Venezuela dies of Breast Cancer at 28

[ via Huffington Post ] 19 Dec

Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, whose struggle with breast cancer has died at age 28.

Ekvall was crowned Miss Venezuela at age 17 in 2000, and the following year she was third runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico. She went on to work as a model, actress and television news anchor.

She also authored a book, "Fuera de Foco" ("Out of Focus"), about her struggle with cancer, which included images by Venezuelan photographer Roberto Mata.

Read more at Huffington Post 

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MPS - a Dangerous Growing Trend in Underage American Girls

[ via Mail Online ] 19 Dec

Researchers at Boston University's School of Public Health found one in 13 teenage girls reported having a 'multi-person sex' (MPS) experience - often initiated by boyfriends who had been watching pornography.

The average age of the girls who had experienced MPS was just 15.6 years old - under the legal age of consent in Massachusetts, which is 16.

The study, of 328 girls from deprived areas in Boston who had gone to sexual health clinics, raises concerns about the influence of pornography on teenagers. The unsafe MPS is raising concerns over the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Emily Rothman, associate professor of community health sciences at the school, told philadelphiaweekly.com: 'Girls were five times more likely to engage in MPS if they or their boyfriends had watched porn.

Read Mail Online for more.

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Breast cancer patients 'stop drugs' due to side-effects

[ BBC Health ]

About a third of breast cancer patients stop taking medication because side-effects are more severe than they expect, US researchers suggest.

The Northwestern University team questioned 686 women who were taking aromatase inhibitors as treatment for oestrogen-sensitive breast cancer. It found 36% stopped their medication because of symptoms such as joint pain, hot flushes, weight gain and nausea.

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Suffering from Acute Acne? Read this Post lest you regret for not doing so !!

 This post is being shared for creating awareness about health issues and their antidotes 

[via Mail Online ] 2 Dec

Acne is a problem and nuisance for most of the teens as they are growing. Acne is not only disturbing, spotting, painful but also "a keep away notice board." While it is normal to have some acne, a few teens suffer from enormous acne as seen in the photo below.

What can be done? Should we feel disgusted and leave ourselves to this irritating and annoying disease. While some lose heart, 19-years old Cassandra Bankson did not and kept trying various methods to cure or hide her acute acne - until she became this:

Watch the video below - and see how she overcame the problem. Don't say after watching the video that you have tried everything. Nothing more will convince you

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Maria: 8 Second Scan can detect breast cancer

Mail Online 1 Dec

There has been a major breakthrough reported in the detection of breast cancer, using landmine technology. The new system called Maria - a pain-free radio wave scanner that is being dubbed as the most accurate and with least side effects as compared to mammography or x-rays presently in use.

Using radio waves makes it easier to find problems in all tissue. The breast is held in a ceramic cup-shaped scanner while data are transferred to a computer within eight seconds to produce a 3D image.

Read full story at Mail Online for more on Maria.

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Expecting mothers should avoid a high street coffee to protect their unborn baby

Mail Online 1 Dec

Pregnant women could unwittingly be putting the health of their unborn baby at risk by drinking coffee from high street cafes, researchers warn. A study on the subject concludes that strongest espressos contain 50 per cent more caffeine than a pregnant woman should have in an ENTIRE DAY.

Photo: Automatic Espressos Makers

An analysis of espressos from 20 coffee shops uncovered huge variations in the amount of caffeine they contain – with the strongest having more than six times as much as the weakest.

Read full story for details and for sake of your as well as baby-to-be-born's health.

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Female Gamers are more Active and Happy [Survey: Infographic]

Mashable 29 Nov

A urvey by Infographic published by Mashable reveals that females that find a hobby in gaming are more active in their social lives than those who don't find gaming attractive and playable.

Screen shot from Infographic Survey

According to a Harris Interactive survey of 2,000 U.S. adults, female online gamers are more social, happy, sexually and physically active than their non-gaming counterparts. Gaming is a stress reliever for most of these women (61%), while 16% game online to connect with others.

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