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Mothers-to-be with more than 12 years of education were far more accurate than less educated women at predicting their baby's sex. Gender predictions based on dreams or feelings were the most accurate.

Scientists have demonstrated that where you live -- and specifically the traffic outside your front door -- affects the quality of the air inside your home.

Women who live in poor rural areas of Africa can potentially benefit from the self-collection of vaginal samples to screen for humanpapilloma viruses (HPV's) that cause cervical cancer. In the past, many of these women were not screened.

A five-year study of men aged 40 and above in Shanghai, China, has found that those who drank water from a polluted downstream section of the Huangpu River were approximately 2.8 times more likely to develop esophageal cancer than men who didn't.