Health

Cradling her five-month-old baby tight, Helena’s main priority is keeping her son and herself safe.  “Coming from a place of being a child in care myself and domestic violence while…

Researchers reviewed studies investigating the effects of carotenoids on women’s health outcomes. Although women tend to have longer lifespans than men, they also have more health conditions. Likewise, while women…

When Alix Mellor fell ill with COVID, she cycled through the full gambit of symptoms: coughing throughout the night, soaring temperatures and unforgiving physical fatigue.  But it was the thing she…

After she finished high school, Wandi Cao’s mother had a piece of advice about her looks.”My mother tried to persuade me to do the double-eyelid plastic surgery, so that ‘my life would…

Covid-19 is once again on the rise, largely as a result of the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant. And as the virus ravages America’s health care system, it is illuminating — and worsening…

The war in Ukraine and its ensuing economic disruptions have raised concerns about global food security. In parts of Africa that have seen ongoing famine and other threats to food security, the…

Doctors in England will be given mandatory training to better treat female medical conditions under wider plans to improve women’s health. Free access to NHS fertility treatment will be expanded…

“My baby wouldn’t have had a mum to look after him had I not been here… this unit saved my life”; says a saved mother. Like many first-time mothers, Kerry…

Sierra asks to use a pseudonym for fear of being caught by the authorities. The 27-year-old shopkeeper explains that she can’t maintain her seven-year skin lightening routine because a ban…

Katie Coleman’s friends warned her not to tell prospective employers about her diagnosis, fearing it would jeopardize her chances of being hired.  Katie Coleman stood face-to-face with a choice no…