Health

In the United States, the National Center for Health Statistics estimates the life expectancies of males and females are 74.5 years and 80.2 years, respectively. For healthy aging, the Centers for Disease Control…

Women with epilepsy experience more anxiety and depression symptoms during and after pregnancy than other women, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine. The study was…

Most women with lung cancer reported some degree of sexual dysfunction following diagnosis, according to study results presented during International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on…

Women who follow a vegetarian diet have a higher risk of breaking their hips in later life, a new study suggests. Researchers said vegetarian diets “often have lower intakes of…

Seeing Chinese authorities exercise extraordinary powers during a stringent COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year altered Claire Jiang’s life plans: she no longer wants to have babies in China.…

New research shows that a higher intake of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) is associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer in pre- and postmenopausal women, especially premenopausal…

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…