My husband and I have been totally obsessed with the show Friday Night Lights lately. I know we’re a little late to the game considering the show started its run over five years and ago and recently ended with its fifth and final season, but that’s how we roll. We always start shows late so [...]
There’s no denying that Katy Perry is a beautiful woman. She’s a beautiful woman who also happens to be a very talented performer. Sure, she may not have the most vocal range, but she’s a hell of an entertainer. Her videos are engrossing and funny and engaging. Her personality is sparkling, and it’s no wonder [...]
Avastin, a cancer drug that was a hopeful for breast cancer treatment when it got in its more advanced stages, is apparently showing promise for another type of female cancer. Ovarian cancer patients saw about four months added to the time it usually takes for ovarian cancer to progress into very serious territory. Basically, the drug [...]
Remember that scandal that broke where thousands of woman potentially have a toxic time bomb in their bodies thanks to a French breast implant company that put industrial (not medical) grade silicone in their breast implants to save money? Well, there’s apparently more to the story as we’re now finding out, and it appears the [...]
Lindsey Lohan’s much ballyhooed Playboy spread ended up being a letdown to some of her fans. Why? Because the hot mess of a star was airbrushed to death like all the other beautiful, busty women who are featured in the men’s magazine, much to the disappointment of their fan base which has been dwindling for [...]
I’ve heard so many women, including friends, coworkers and family members who have had a scare with breast cancer. It seems like the older you get, the more likely you are to have one, and more women I know who are past fifty have had a scare at one point or another. A “scare” can [...]
The arm of the government in France that deals with health and medical devices, sort of like our FDA here in the US, has issued a warning to French women who received a particular brand of silicone breast implant recently that they may want to get screenings. They even said the women may want to [...]
E! News correspondent Guiliana Rancic, formerly Depandi, has made news several times lately for her battle against breast cancer. She’s young, so it’s always a shock when women younger than fifty five have breast cancer, but it’s actually more common than people think, we just don’t catch it until later stages because of higher rates [...]
It is easy to think that mammograms save lives when so many women espouse their belief that the mammogram saved their life because it detected their breast cancer much earlier on than say a self breast exam would have. But I just read a very interesting perspective from another specialist who says that mammograms may [...]
While there are several types of foods you can eat to help sustain and enhance the health of your breasts and to help avoid the likelihood of breast cancer in every lifestyle way you can (there is always a genetic component unfortunately in this type of cancer), there are also several types of foods to [...]
How many times do we have to see before and after pictures of actresses and women in the public spotlight accompanied by the question “did she or didn’t she?” before we say we’ve had enough? Why can’t a woman just go and get herself some plastic surgery without being the subject of ridicule and speculation? [...]
The breast cancer drug often used as a last resort called “Avastin” has finally been formally recalled by the FDA. The FDA had previously approved the drug for breast cancer that was not responding to other more conventional treatments. It has now come to the conclusion that Avastin presents too many other health risks, and [...]
Huh? Wait what? That was how I looked at the headline that suggested that drinking alcohol, something that has long been linked to increasing the risk of developing breast cancer in women, may actually help to prevent the spread of the deadly disease. I though I was either reading it incorrectly or that it may [...]
The Mediterranean diet, as it has been termed, is really more of a common sense, all around healthful approach to eating than a diet to me. It only got its name because those that live in the Mediterranean have easier access to several of the foods on the diet, and a lot of the foods [...]
With the Fukushima disaster (which eerily has not been in the news for a long time for being such a disaster), many men and women were exposed to toxic levels of radioactive materials. These radioactive materials can seep into the water supply, the ground and the produce that springs forth from the ground, making it [...]
There have been two recent confirmations of something that has long bees suspected and used as a common sense prevention method against most types of cancer, including breast cancer. The first is to really limit your intake of alcohol. The research on alcohol intake has been fairly mixed. Some studies suggest that those with drink [...]
Evelyn Lauder, who is related to the cosmetics magnate Estee Lauder, has passed away. But she is not only notable for her relationship to one of the biggest names in cosmetics and ingenuity. She is actually the creator of the pink ribbon that is used for breast cancer awareness as we know it today. Lauder [...]
When it comes to most types of breast cancer, there is one fact that is pretty much undisputed. That fact is that excessive estrogens, especially those of a synthetic nature that did not originate in the female body itself, via its own natural processes, may actually accelerate breast cancer. However, it is unknown specifically what [...]
There are a couple of interesting stories in the news as of late about breast health that I’d like to share. The first headline really caught my eye, because it put two things that logically don’t go together in one sentence. Spider venom and breast cancer treatment – talk about a shocker. So of course I [...]
Well, the month of breast cancer and breast health awareness if officially over, and this time it appears that the month dedicated to one of America’s favorite subjects in both health and obsession, breasts, has garnered a lot of following. There have been numerous news stories about breast cancer awareness month of October 2011. From [...]
Having a mastectomy, or a double mastectomy, often feels extremely emotional for women. Our breasts are something that we grew with. They are a part of our bodies, a part of our treasured femininity and a symbol of our sexuality. Sure, breasts are flaunted, too talked about, obsessed over, and put on a pedestal in [...]
Tomoxifen is a well known drug that is given to women who have, or have had, breast cancer. It is supposed to help suppress the estrogens that can fuel breast cancer or ignite it again once remission has been declared. Older women who are taking the drug have shown a slightly increased risk for developing [...]
I’ve been reading some very interesting things on Susan G Komen and other breast cancer nonprofit organizations that likely started off as meaning well. They have, however, evolved into organizations that may be giving a lot of their money to pharmaceutical companies to come up with drugs that can be more toxic than the cancer [...]
This conversation came up the other day actually. We were talking about how our in-house employee clinic was offering breast cancer screenings. The kind where a travelling nurse goes around and does breast examinations, or teaches you how to do breast exams on yourself and detect breast cancer earlier. We also have a program that [...]
I received notification that Healthline, a popular health and medical website, has just released a 3D version of the female chest. It’s quite cool, I checked it out. It can show you the various areas of the female breast and the physiology and anatomy of this area on women. If you’re a girl, it’s pretty [...]
So I’ve been seeing these ads on TV for this bra that the company calls the “Ahh Bra”, and I must admit I’m a little intrigued by it. I’m one of those people who hates to wear a bra. It is literally the first thing that comes off when I walk through the door from [...]
Critters for the Cure is a great organization that helps to fund financial support for women going through breast cancer treatment. It also helps to fund breast cancer research in an effort to help defeat and treat this disease which has become so pervasive in American culture for women. If you’d like to help support [...]
Remember the story we told you about a couple weeks ago, about a ridiculous refusal on the Medicaid’s part to pay for a man’s breast cancer treatment because of archaic laws that do not cover men who get this typically female cancer? Well apparently, the outcry it caused has done some good. The South Carolina [...]
I almost choked on my water when I read this headline. A 75 year old woman has chosen to get breast implants. And if ever a pair of breast implants would be newsworthy, I would say this would be the time. The first thing that struck me was how dangerous it is considered to have [...]
There was just a report of the first kind that I read today about a woman who had a ruptured breast implant from playing paintball. This is the first report of this kind to occur, so it is a rare occurrence. However, it has paintball businesses warning their customers that if they have breast implants, [...]
Apparently equal opportunity works both ways when it comes to sex discrimination. Although women are the most often discriminated against in the real world of politics, the job market and a myriad of other places (not the least of which is a car repair shop), it seems men are discriminated against in one key area. [...]
As with most other cancer and pre-cancer screenings, the breast cancer screening techniques have had their fair share of criticism and doubts over the years. The latest argument over whether women at a certain age should get mammograms has really muddied the waters more for women who are concerned about their breast health. It’s actually [...]
Millions of women are the birth control pill. Although “the pill” as it has been dubbed over the past few decades by modern women, has become much safer than its older counterparts that women in my mother’s generation shied away from. Back in those days, the dosage was so high that many women experienced such [...]
It’s bad enough that little girls are bombarded with the unlikely and unattainable proportions of Barbie dolls and other knockoff dolls with long flowing hair, size zero bodies and gigantic boobs, but now they are also trying to brain wash little girls into mommie hood (motherhood is great, but it certainly isn’t right for all [...]
I know I’m grasping at straws with today’s post, but honestly there is really no good news about breasts right now to talk about, so I was forced to go into a little diotribe about something that I’ve thought about a lot. Especially when I’m watching a period piece that has nudity (ie female breast [...]
The mammogram debate never seems to stop raging. Today we hear that they aren’t as necessary as the medical profession would have us believe, and tomorrow we may hear that they are the worst thing you can do for your body, and actually cause breast cancer. The next we may hear that it’s all hooey [...]
We watched the “comedy” movie with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, normally a fairly adequate duo of worthy actors, last night. First of all, I want to say that Brookyn Decker has one of the greatest female bodies I’ve seen in a while. She’s gorgeous. And oh my gosh, the woman’s breasts will even make [...]
I received the following interesting information on how a combination of herbal concoctions in Chinese medicine may help women who are being treated for breast cancer via chemotherapy, and wanted to share the press release with you. Chinese medicine benefits patients receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer Chinese medicine can help support women who are being [...]
I’m pleased to see a trend in Hollywood that is getting away from starlets with breast implants, and focusing more on natural beauties who clearly have not been surgically altered. One example I can think of is Amy Adams in The Fighter, a movie we just saw recently. She does a great job in this [...]
It seems that finally, there is beginning to be a real shift toward wellness and prevention in the medical industry, as opposed to just putting a medication into people to fix what could have been probably totally avoided had they followed a certain diet and exercised as well. I’m hearing a series of PSA ads [...]
There are more and more findings in breast cancer research, and many of them point to the fact that some women have such high predispositions to get the disease that they might as well do something to significantly lower their risk early on in life. There was actually even an episode about a woman who [...]