Tag: Cancer - Page 4
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Riding in Place to Fight Breast Cancer
How would you react if you lost your mother to breast cancer? If you are Jonathan Cane, you'd organize a virtual-cross-country bicycle race in the storefront on one of Manhattan's busiest streets. Starting on Tuesday, May 26, at
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Almosts: Bamboo Facial Cleansing Cloths
Seems like "facial cleansing cloths" are popping up everywhere these days (I even got them in my stocking this year) - aimed at simplifying your life, or at least taking some of the time out of taking your face off at the end
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15 Healthful, Green Reasons Why You Should be Having Sex... Right Now!
From my experiences as a sex columnist, it just never seems to amaze me of all the healthful reasons for having a plentiful sex life. The most recent Durex Global Sex Survey shows that there are unfortunately a number of
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Hotsprings In February (videos)
In February, it can get pretty cold in the northern parts of Japan, with snow up to 2 m (6-7 ft) in many rural villages in the mountains. That's when we like to go to the hotsprings, and enjoy the mineral waters heated
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Green Tea Protects From Alzheimer's, More Studies Show
Photo Credit: Kanko Research with green tea and Alzheimer's continues to show that the antioxidant properties in green tea (Camellia Sinensis) may in fact have the ability to decrease production of beta-amyloid, which is the protein which forms plaques
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Canadians Tire of Toxic Fruits and Veggies
While the Canadian Cancer Society has been vocal about banning cosmetic pesticides in homes,
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Videsante Launches CTRL, a Paraben-Free Acne Treatment
Acne products, like many personal care products can be full of parabens. Parabens, while designed to prevent the growth of bacteria within a container, have received increasing scrutiny from consumer advocacy groups and scientists alike in
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Salon Quality, 100% Natural Hair Dye by Advanced Cosmetic Technologies
A hair dye without harsh chemicals, bleach, peroxide, ammonia, resorcinol or paraphenylene diamine (PPD)? And not a moment too soon as you are worried about looking your best this upcoming holiday season and the chance you might run into that old flame
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FDA Throwing BPA Panel Under the Bus
On Friday The FDA Science Board, a group of outside experts, backed up critics who found major flaws in the agency's decision to declare BPA safe for babies. According to USA Today: The science board agreed with the finding that that the FDA was wrong
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Dow Chemical Challenges Canadian Chemical Ban
Former Republican Massachusetts governor and Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci tells us that an Obama presidency: "would present a "danger" to Canada because he could renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, imperiling the future economic
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BPA Update: Canada Declares it Toxic, FDA Chair's Donor was Michigan's "First Polluter"
Health Canada has added Bisphenol A to the country's list of toxic substances, concluding that babies are getting too much of the gender-bender. It is stopping the sale of polycarbonate baby bottles and wants formula makers to switch to BPA-free
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FDA Chair Studying BPA Took $5 Million Donation From BPA Supporter
1) Martin Philbert is Chair of the committee looking at the safety of Bisphenol A (BPA.) 2) Philbert is founder and co-director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center. 3) Philbert's Center receives $5 million (50 times its annual
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More Bad News About Bisphenol A: It Interferes with Chemotherapy Treatments
We know, the Food and Drug Administration says Bisphenol A (BPA) is safe and the Government's role is to protect its citizens, not the chemical industry. Nevertheless, yet another study has just come out that shows the stuff lining
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Fundamentally "Flawed" CDC Report Failed to Mention Formaldehyde Can Cause Cancer
A (dismal) chapter of American history most of us would gladly like to put behind us -- Hurricane Katrina and the government's pathetic response -- seems to be rearing its ugly head again. The latest revelation, according to
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Are Boys Disappearing Because of Gender Bender Chemicals?
"Something is happening to today's boys and men: Fewer are being born compared with girls, they're having more trouble in school, virility and fertility are down and testicular cancer rates are up. Now, scientists say these 'fragile
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Yet Another Bisphenol A Pile-on: Linked to Heart Disease, Diabetes and Liver Problems
Now let's see, studies have shown that it grows breasts on men while it reduces their sperm counts, causes women to get early puberty and possibly breast cancer, and worse than that, it can even make you fat. and possibly
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New Study: BPA May Make You Stupid and Depressed
Coincidentally with the release of the National Toxicology Program report, a new study reports that researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and Guelph University exposed African Green monkeys on the Island of St. Kitts
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Final Report on Bisphenol A: It May Harm Kids
The chemical industry and skeptics jumped for joy and accused us of being scare-mongers a few weeks ago when the FDA said that BPA (Bisphenol A) was safe for babies, but now the final report from the Department of Health and Human Services' National
