Breasts are located on the anterior aspect of the chest and are composed of glandular tissue, adipose tissue, and ligamentous tissue. In women, breasts function to produce and secrete milk after childbirth, a process called lactation. The accessory...

Breast Development Breast development is one of the first visible signs of the onset of puberty in girls. It usually begins between the ages of eight and thirteen, shortly before the growth spurt. Female breast development is measured in stages based on...

The term breast refers to the upper ventral region of an animal’s torso, particularly that of mammals, including human beings. The breasts of a female mammal’s body contain the mammary glands, which secrete milk used to feed infants. This article...

Some of my friends objected to A History of the Breast as a dismembering of the body, even if only in historical memory; others objected to what they saw as the voyeurism of Marilyn Yalom's enterprise. It seems to me, however, that in...

Wendy Block lives in Los Angeles, where she writes about nutrition and healthy personal care. You can provide a potentially life-saving service for your customers next month. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Several natural personal care and supplement companies manufacture...

It’s not often that you see breast cancer researchers break into tears, but that’s what happened at a major scientific meeting last year. What elicited that response were the results of a clinical trial involving a relatively new cancer drug called Herceptin. Combining the drug...

A television station apologized to viewers after an Internet video showed a longtime weather anchor clowning around in front of a computer graphic of a woman's breast.WBKO-TV said on its Web site that it has reprimanded weather anchor Chris Allen for "acting in a juvenile...