Tag: Women’s health

When she loses a pregnancy, Anna Lea Hand searches in vain for vital advice and information.

The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.

Anne Boyer encounters a familiar system — that grand and easy-to-mistake-for-everything system — at the cancer pavilion.

When a high-risk pregnancy jeopardizes their eyesight, Heather Quinn explores the expectations of motherhood and finds common ground with a patron saint.

In the wake of childbirth and postpartum complications affecting her mental health and her marriage, Ukamaka Olisakwe picks herself up and starts over — in grad school.

The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.

Darcey Steinke says that most menopause memoirs “end with this come-to-Jesus moment of, ‘Then I accepted hormones.’ I’m not against it, but … I wanted to hear what it’s like for other women.”

In an excerpt from her new book, Darcey Steinke investigates — and debunks — the demonization of anger within the female body.

One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.

Activist and author Robin Marty says the biggest threat facing women in a post-Roe America would be arrest, not death.

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

How the newly evolved bicycle helped liberate women and modernize America’s concept of fitness.

Stories of women of color dying of childbirth have dominated headlines — but little has been done to change postpartum care.

Shalon Irving was educated, insured, and well-supported by family and friends. She still became a casualty of missed opportunities and neglect by healthcare providers.

On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.

Under the Global Gag Rule, medical professionals cannot counsel a woman to seek an abortion — even in cases where it will save her life.

Sixteen percent of women suffer from a condition you’ve probably never heard of.

Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel speak frankly about perimenopause and menopause to destigmatize the flow and ebb of the female reproductive cycle.

A raw look at the discomfort, confusion, and anger of being diagnosed and dealing with endometriosis, a painful reproductive disorder with mysterious origins, and no cure.