Women with multiple sclerosis taking b-cell suppressing therapies are at risk of developing persistent inflammatory vaginitis, according to a multidisciplinary team from NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.
Do the hormone changes of menopause mean it’s time to kiss sex goodbye? As estrogen levels dip, women can experience symptoms such as hot flashes, anxiety, mood swings, and sleeplessness.
In the past five years or so, it’s become something of a burgeoning wellness trend for women of reproductive age to question, or even outright quit, hormonal birth control.
Earlier this week, Hanne Blank, a historian of sexuality and medicine, saw a tweet going viral that reminded her of a chapter of feminist history from 50 years ago.
When a pediatrician put Maya Prokupets on the birth control pill at age 15 to prevent pregnancy, she doesn’t remember being given any information on possible side effects.
Erin Bascom's job shifted to work-from-home in mid-March 2020, around the same time that she and her husband decided to keep their daughter home from daycare.
While the United States was already in the midst of a maternal health crisis before the pandemic, for women of color, especially Black women, things went from bad to worse.