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Many Americans want to lighten their skin. Skin lightening, also called bleaching or bleaching, is a multibillion-dollar industry with products that can damage skin and that researchers say promote a dangerous message about beauty and social value. But people who use these products -- mostly marketed to women -- rarely understand the health risks of using the over-the-counter chemicals, Northwestern University researchers found in a recently published study. in the International Journal of Women's Dermatology. The researchers surveyed hundreds of people, most of them black women. Many of the respondents reported using skin lightening products, and a portion admitted that…

WASHINGTON — Passage of the House's annual defense policy bill on Friday remains uncertain after Republicans added provisions on abortion and transgender surgeries, measures that are not a start for Democrats.The amendments, adopted Thursday, would prohibit the secretary of defense from paying or reimbursing service members for expenses related to abortion and transgender surgeries and hormone treatments.The abortion amendment, sponsored by Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, passed largely along party lines in a 221-213 vote. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, joined Republicans in voting to adopt the amendment, while two Republicans, John Duarte of California and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, opposed the…

More than two months after defending its rules on the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced on Friday that trans cyclists will now be banned from competing in all international women's events. The UCI, the world governing body for cycling sport, issued a lengthy statement updating its policy that will now ban any trans cyclist from competing in female events if they "transitioned after (male) puberty." "The meeting of the UCI Governing Board took place after a seminar on the conditions for the participation of transgender athletes in women's cycling events, organized by…

Eighteen months after Facebook banned communities and users linked to the anti-government "Boogaloo" movement, the group's extremist ideas had returned and flourished on the social media platform, a new investigation has found. The paper, from George Washington University and Jigsaw, a unit within Google that explores threats to open societies, including hate and toxicity, violent extremism and censorship, found that after the ban on the Boogaloo militia movement on Facebook in June 2020, the content "boomeranged". first decreasing and then recovering to almost its original volume. “What this study says is that you can't play mole once and walk away,”…