Month: December 2021

After extensive testing, we’ve narrowed down the best breast pumps, including electric, manual, and wearable models from Medela, Spectra, Elvie, and more.

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Ugandan street vendor Saudah Namutebi found out about cervical cancer one day when she was listening to the radio.

Ugandan street vendor Saudah Namutebi found out about cervical cancer one day when she was listening to the radio.

An MIT researcher who survived breast cancer has devised a technique that seems to predict, with unprecedented accuracy, whether a healthy person will get breast cancer — an innovation that could seriously disrupt how we think about the disease.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The Zonta Club of New Providence (ZCNP) Save A Life Campaign raised $14,000 to help women diagnosed with breast cancer have a fighting chance to live. Campaign Chair Sherrel Cox s…

Therapeutic Goods Administration looked at two applications to move some of the ingredients in the pill into a category that would mean it could be sold at pharmacies without a prescription.

After 18 months of fighting for clean air, Alexandra Collins thought that she could leave ethylene oxide behind. But then, she found that the pollutant is an ingredient in many cosmetics that women and girls use today. She combined her computer science…

THE BACKGROUND: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo entered 2021 seeing his reputation as a leader in the COVID-19 fight starting to fray. But nearly everyone expected it to be a year of triumph — over both his handling of the virus and anyone who stood in the …

Women will not be able to buy the contraceptive pill over the counter at chemists after the national medicines regulator handed down its final decision.