Oral contraceptives raise the risk of depression, according to a new international study that surveyed more than 264,000 women. Teenagers were at the highest risk, with a 130 percent higher risk of depression in women who started using birth control as adolescents, compared to a […]

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The facade of “safety” around hormonal birth control continues to crumble: Researchers at Oxford Population Health’s Cancer Epidemiology Unit have recently shown that progestin-only hormonal contraceptives, long billed as the “safest” birth control option because of their lack of estrogen, definitively raises one’s risk of […]

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THOUSANDS of women have been warned their breast implants could cause a deadly cancer. Pharmaceutical company Allergan announced a global recall of Biocell textured breast implants in 2019. 1 Breast implants have been linked to a deadly cancer with thousands of women at riskCredit: Alamy […]

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WE’VE all had that lightbulb moment when we decide to go on a health kick. For Hannah Gardener, that came when she was just 26 years old. 3 Hannah Gardner went on a health kick over ten years ago, but felt as though she had […]

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