Later this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to ban the use of formaldehyde in hair-straightening and hair-smoothing products in response to mounting concerns about the ingredient's harmful health effects....
Best air purifiers for allergies 2024: Quick List(Image credit: Getty Images)1. The list in brief ↴ 2. Best overall 3. Best budget option 4. Lowest energy consumption 5. Best aesthetics 6. Best for large rooms 7. Best for monitoring...
About 1 in every 3 women, and 1 in 4 men, will experience domestic violence over their lifetime. Since domestic violence can escalate to the point of serious injury or murder, survivors must take action to increase their safety –...
The more scientists learn about the health risks of PFAS, found in everything from nonstick cookware to carpets to ski wax, the more concerning these “forever chemicals” become. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now believes...
Call it the Five Stages of Grief (Taylor’s Version). Last week, ahead of the release of her album The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift shared five new playlists that sort her old songs into stages: denial, anger, bargaining,...
In 1970, the average woman in the U.S. had her first baby at around 21 years old. That’s hard to imagine now: new federal data published in April show that in 2022, the average first-time mother was a little older than 27—a record...
As stigma continues to plague the topic of mental health in Hong Kong, three experts in the field shed light on how we can further raise awareness and help those suffering. Let’s be honest: mental health isn’t...
Me and vitamin C? It’s complicated! A boon for many and a bane for some- vitamin C has held a complicated status ever since its advent in the beauty bracket, courtesy of some of its unstable qualities. So, if you share a complicated...
If you want to understand the importance of sleep, ask someone who spent the previous night tossing and turning. Sleep is a vital function: essential for physical recovery, preparing for the next day, even clearing waste material from...
There's evidence of humans performing major surgeries since the Stone Age, as evidenced by ancient skulls with holes drilled in them, and the remains from a 31,000-year-old leg amputation in Borneo, for instance. However, the use of...
Growing up, Olivia Dreizen Howell, 39, “lived on” diet soda. So did her family. At a family reunion in 1996, everyone sported T-shirts with their shared surname in Diet Coke-can font. “We drank Diet Coke, Diet ginger ale, and...
At first, my legs buckled. Then I started nearly fainting and was struck by fierce jaw, neck, and back pain—six unhappy faces-worth on the scale. Just as quickly, as one tends to do, I created narratives to explain these sudden...
Magnesium is an essential mineral that iNFLuences brain and heart function. It is crucial to ensure one’s dietary requirement for magnesium because it affects over 300 biochemical reactions and enzyme systems in humans. If you...
The RI Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has opened the Great Swamp Shooting Range for the season and welcomes sportsmen and women to use Rhode Island’s only free, public outdoor shooting range. The facility is open for...
by John Donnelly, meteorologist As cloud cover increases through the day well ahead of a warm front, the threat of rain will increase later in the early evening, likely to begin by 9pm and carry through midnight. Much cooler than...
Following the total solar eclipse raced across North America at a whopping 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h) Monday (April 8), drawing the eager eyes of tens of millions of skywatchers, internet searches for "my eyes hurt" seem to be spiking.So...
One of the most important lessons medical schools teach is one my mom mastered as a teenager left to fill her own mother’s shoes: how to figure out who is really sick and needs immediate attention and who can wait (or what we in...
If you have a headache or eye pain after viewing the solar eclipse—even if you wore eclipse glasses—you’re not alone. But don’t panic. Experts say it’s probably not a sign of serious damage.Looking straight at the eclipse...
For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive "atlas" of the cells in the human ovary and mapped the specific pattern of gene activity required for a healthy egg to develop. The researchers determined which genes...
Women in their early 20s who have been pregnant are "biologically older" than those who have never been pregnant, and by some measures, this age gap seems to widen in people who have had multiple pregnancies, a new study suggests.The...
Pregnancy is a wonder of biology, but new research shows that feat may come at a price. In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists found that women who have been pregnant showed more signs of...
