Authors: Louis Milman
Tickingtimebombsblog.com(LOS ANGELES) -- Rachel Joy Horn's breasts were ticking time bombs. She lost trust in her body and no longer felt comfortable in her own skin.
That is how she felt, she said, when her doctor broke the news to her that she'd tested positive for a gene mutation that put her in the high-risk category for...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Astrid Stawiarz/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- Angelina Jolie‘s double mastectomy is apparently just the beginning. The Oscar-winning actress will undergo surgery to remove her ovaries as soon as she possibly can, sources tell People magazine.
Jolie implied as much in Sunday’s New York Times op-ed, in which she...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Blowout bars offer no cutting or coloring of hair in their salons, just washing and blowing it out. But they’ve become all the rage because they tend to be cheaper and faster than a full-service salon.
A typical blowout costs $35, and many women go as often as three times a...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
National Jewish Health(DENVER) -- When Paula Spurlock started to experience itching and pain all over her body, she never dreamed that she was allergic to the metal device implanted into her hip.
Spurlock, 50, experienced migraines, itching and pain for nearly two years before doctors noticed that her right hip lit up on a...
Authors: Carmen Cox
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(CLEARLAKE, Calif.) -- Authorities continue to search for a 9-year-old autistic girl who disappeared from her family's Clearlake, Calif., vacation home on Mother's Day.
Mikaela Lynch, of San Francisco, was reported missing from her fenced-in backyard where she had been playing with her younger brother, ABC's...
Authors: jc
Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Raising questions about the dietary recommendations for salt, a report from the Institute of Medicine finds "insufficient and inconsistent" evidence to support limiting sodium intake to 1,500 milligrams per day.
The report documents a committee investigation on whether there was enough evidence...
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