Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The damage chemical hair relaxers can have on Black women is coming under intense scrutiny. Several landmark studies have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Postmenopausal Black women who reported using hair relaxers more than twice a year or for more than five years had a greater than ...

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Oct. 11 (UPI) --Black women's long-term use of some chemical hair relaxers at least twice a year has been associated with a higher risk of uterine cancer, according to a new study done by Boston ...

Maria Loren Ackies remembers the first time she went to the salon to get her hair professionally straightened. “I was 14 and I was so excited,” Ackies, 49, of West Hempstead, recalled. But her mood ...

LaTonya Shuler, 50, of Indianapolis, had planned to have children. But at age 32, she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. After six weeks of radiation and a hysterectomy for Shuler, a home health aide ...

Chemical hair relaxers are heavily marketed to, and commonly used by, Black women to straighten curly or tightly coiled hair. These products are only loosely regulated and are known to contain ...

Across the country, Black women are learning about the health consequences linked with using hair relaxers and are banding together to demand these products – used predominantly by Black and brown ...

If your hair always feels thinner or weaker after a relaxer, you’re not alone. Many Nigerian women struggle with breakage after chemically straightening their hair. But the truth is, not all relaxers ...

Have you ever felt that sting at your hairline while applying a relaxer, only to find a painful burn the next morning? You’re not alone. Living in Nigeria means battling high humidity, which can react ...