Scientists Still Stumped By The Evolution of Human Breasts

In other primate species, only pregnant or lactating females have bosoms. The animals stay flat-chested for the rest of their lives. In humans, pubescent girls accumulate fat around their milk glands, which stays for life and seems to hold sex appeal in every culture. Those permanent, alluring mounds of fat on women’s chests are indeed an evolutionary anomaly, begging for an explanation.

‘Breasts’: An Interview With Author Florence Williams

Breasts are very sensitive to the environment at every single life stage, from earliest embryonic development through puberty and pregnancy and lactation and menopause. So it turns out that they’re really sentinel organs in our bodies.

13 Major Milestones In Breasts

Think back: You’ve probably got your own personal important breast moments — many of us do. For some, it’s the day you first realized you had them, or the day you bought your first bra, (not to be overshadowed by the day you realized you were wearing the wrong size, like basically every other brassiere-wearer out there, according to bra experts).

My Boobs, My Body, My Health: Breast Health Now and (Hopefully) Forever

Perhaps because my boobs have never been too big, too small, too lumpy, lopsided or painful, or because I've never been into showing them off (maybe because there was never much to show at the time in my life I would have been inclined to do so), I've never given them that much thought.

Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts

Evolution might underlie the different processing of female versus male bodies. Both genders do it.

Pink October’s Predecessor

Before there was breast cancer awareness, there was tuberculosis advocacy. It was a lot more effective.

The Breast Has Its Own Microbiome--and the Mix of Bacteria Could Prevent or Encourage Cancer

If certain bacteria do instigate cancer, the finding could lead to new screening methods or treatments.

Why Your Breasts Can Feel So Painfully Sore Before Your Period

Most people agree that breast sensitivity is at its height right before your period, but how alarmed should we be by pain?

Will Essential Oils Like Lavender And Tea Tree Make Your Breasts Larger?

That sense of calmness when surrounded by lavender oil may not be the only thing growing in your chest.

Women Changing the Way We Think About Our Boobs: Angelique Pitney

Get in Touch has reached worldwide to over 80 countries through the free educational program and their smart phone app. These foreign countries, many of them undeveloped, are so excited about having the education to spread as far and wide as they can. Many of us have the resources to live healthy and wise that some others around the world don’t. If we can lead by example we are taking a huge step towards not only breast health awareness, but also towards setting precedence for how we should treat ourselves as individuals.

You Don't Have to Feel Your Breasts

Breast self-exams haven't been shown to save lives. Instead, here's how to actually tell if you might have breast cancer.

Allure of the Breast: Why I Chose to Become an Imaging Specialist

Breast imaging is the field for me. I want the opportunity to train as a fellow at a high-quality, cutting-edge program with research activity that also manages to keep the needs of patients in mind. I aspire to learn the technical aspects necessary to become an excellent breast radiologist, as well as to glean as much knowledge as possible about the terrorist known as breast cancer. In the end, if it will be necessary for me to "peel women off ceilings" during the course of my day, well, hand me the scraper. I'll get them down safely.

How Breast Size Affects How Women Exercise

As women’s breast sizes grew, their participation in physical activity declined, particularly if that exercise was vigorous.

My body dilemma: ‘What are my breasts for? Why have I been carting them around for years?’

CJ Hauser has spent hours on her computer looking up breast reduction surgery. What’s holding her back?

Our Complicated Relationship with Breasts

In America, we have what you might call a "problem" with boobs. See, the thing is, we don't know how to feel about them, exactly.

The Artists Depicting the Power and Strangeness of Breasts

New generations of women painters are challenging centuries of art history with their nuanced, empathetic renderings of bare-chested bodies.

What Determines Breast Size and Breast Shape?

Most body parts grow to a certain size and then stop. When it comes to your breast size? Not so much. Your breast size and shape can change quite a bit throughout your life. (If you’re someone whose boobs get bigger around your period, you know what we’re talking about.) Believe it or not, your boobs started growing in the womb with the development of your milk-duct system.

Women should be told about their breast density when they have a mammogram

We don’t want to scare women that have higher breast density for their age. Rather, we want to inform them about their risk of breast cancer and the additional care they should take until we find treatments that can reduce density and breast cancer risk. Not all women with high breast density will develop breast cancer, but they should be aware that they are at an increased risk.

Your Breasts Are Trying To Kill You

A smart new history takes boobs seriously. In Breasts, Williams, a contributing editor for Outside magazine, attempts to offer a comprehensive social, cultural, medical, and scientific history of the human breast, a la single-word-titled best-sellers like Cod or Salt or Stiff—though not, alas, Balls.

​New Study Says Asymmetrical Boobs May Have Negative Psychological Effects on Teens

Differences in breast size are common, especially in early adolescence. The breasts usually even out over time, but in some girls the difference persists after puberty. The new study is the first to focus on the mental health impact of breast asymmetry.