“Our study is the first to establish how weight gain and age of first birth interact to affect a woman’s risk of breast ...

For instance, a review of 21 studies found that each additional year of age at first full-term pregnancy increases the risk ...

Women who experience significant weight gain after the age of 20 and either have their first child after the age of 30 or don ...

High birth weight is the main risk factor for birth injuries to the anal sphincter muscles of the person giving birth, ...

In the middle of the night Sali Sasi would wake in a pool of sweat, feeling as if hundreds of insects were crawling under her ...

The study on redlining and survival after breast cancer diagnosis showed that regardless of a woman’s health insurance status, the treatments she received and the socioeconomic status of her ...

N.I.H. restrictions on payments to foreign partners may jeopardize research into conditions that would benefit Americans.

Genetic factors contribute to some 30% of breast cancer cases in SA, necessitating investment in genomic research in African contexts. A seminal genetic study published in Nature Communication has ...

Previous research has shown that weight gain in adulthood increases the risk of developing breast cancer after ... the study found no evidence that having a first pregnancy at an early age reduces ...