Health

For over 60 years, hormonal birth control has been sold as a quick fix for acne, reproductive health conditions, pregnancy prevention, or simply the inconvenience of periods. Yet women are…

A study, funded by Cancer Research UK and published in BMC Medicine, found that the proportion of women aged 18-45 from higher socioeconomic backgrounds who smoked rose from 12 per…

When it comes to breast cancer screening, women are often told they need an additional scan beyond just a mammogram because these scans can miss tumors in women with dense breast tissue.…

  When it comes to matters of the heart, cardiovascular disease in women is underdiagnosed compared to men. A popular scoring system used to estimate how likely a person is…

Active military service may heighten a woman’s risk of having a low birthweight baby, suggests a review of the available scientific evidence published online in the journal BMJ Military Health. The…

Eight years after a national ban on skin-whitening products came into force in Ivory Coast, the trend continues to boom despite its health risks. Half of Abidjan’s women are known…

Losing the constitutional right to an abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned has led to many more women resorting to getting their tubes tied. An increasing trend in permanent contraception procedures…

A new “atlas” of the human ovary provides insights that could lead to treatments restoring ovarian hormone production and the ability to have biologically related children, according to University of…

Re Charlie Brink Hurst-Cuff’s article (I know I want at least one baby. But the more I learn about motherhood, the more terrifying it seems, 12 March), having survived the…

A woman in a posted video is wearing a backpack and smiling while standing on what appears to be a dirt road in a forest in Dartmoor National Park. The…