One you reach the age of 30, you have a 10% to 20% chance of graying hair with each passing decade.1 It’s a fact of life that, eventually, virtually everyone will go gray. Your hair color comes from pigment called melanin. Each hair may contain dark melanin (eumelanin) and light melanin (pheomelanin), which blend together… Read More »
This article was previously published November 11, 2011, and has been updated with new information. The science is loud and clear: The correct balance of fatty acids is essential if you want to be the healthiest you can be. That means that maintaining a healthy ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is important for optimal health.… Read More »
Q. I recently had my smear test and was informed that I had the HPV virus and would need close monitoring. Thankfully, no abnormal cells were found. Can you explain exactly what this means? What should I be looking out for in terms of cancers? Dr Grant replies: There are more than 200 types of… Read More »
Shoddy, incomplete, fawning news coverage of screening tests is one of the most clearly established problems in health news coverage – something HealthNewsReview.org has revealed countless times over the past 15 years. A public relations news release 22 days ago – from “a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early” – touted study… Read More »