by Huntsman Cancer Institute Crystal Lumpkins, PhD, MA. Credit: Huntsman Cancer InstituteThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to ban formaldehyde as an ingredient in chemical hair straighteners, also known as relaxers. Theresa Werner, MD, deputy director of Huntsman Cancer Institute and a professor of oncology at the University of Utah (the U), and...
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Black women weigh emerging risks of ‘creamy crack’ hair straighteners
by Ronnie Cohen, KFF Health News Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Deanna Denham Hughes was stunned when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year. She was only 32. She had no family history of cancer, and tests found no genetic link. Hughes wondered why she, an otherwise healthy Black mother of two, would develop a...