April 26, 2024

Hormonal birth control raises breast cancer risk slightly: study

Both progestin-only and combined hormonal birth control slightly raises the chances of getting breast cancer, a new study with the University of Oxford found, but the overall risk remains low. The study, published in PLOS Medicine, found that new forms of progestin-only hormonal birth control carry a small increased risk for breast cancer as well […]

I make lotion out of my breast milk — it’s a cure-all for my skin

Squeezing her own breast milk onto her skin cured this new mom of what she feared would be an itchy, flaky lifelong affliction.   “Breast milk from my own body healed my hands,” exclaimed mother-of-one Ashley Lemieux, 36, from Phoenix in her trending TikTok testimonial. “I have psoriasis … and I want to see if the […]

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