Should we be surprised that some women will opt for do-it-yourself medicine in this climate when health care access is out of reach for more Americans and when abortion is so stigmatized?
nytimes.com | JENNIFER 8. LEE and CARA BUCKLEY | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living
Amalia Dominguez was 18 and desperate and knew exactly what to ask for at the small, family-run pharmacy in the heart of Washington Heights, the thriv...
Telegraph | Last Updated: 12:12PM GMT 29 Dec 2008 | Posted 12.29.2008 | Living
According to a new study by cereal brand Special K, women who wear a British size 14 (US equivalent size 12) are the happiest with their life and look...
Emily Douglas | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living
One of the rule's more disturbing provisions is the announcement that Title X family planning funding will now be open to grantees who refuse to counsel women on the availability of abortion.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Posted 12.15.2008 | Living
Dieters who eliminate carbohydrates from their diet may lose some extra pounds, but it could leave them fuzzy headed and forgetful, says a new study. ...
WWD | Stephanie D. Smith | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media
In September, David Zinczenko declared to WWD he had big plans for Women's Health, one of the three magazines he oversees as editorial director at Rod...
Women's Health | Posted 12.10.2008 | Living
If the only time you zoom in on your anatomy is when you're tweezing your unibrow or popping a zit, then you could be missing out on some crucial info...
The Media Consortium | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics
In one of today's more bizarre health stories, we find tobacco giant Philip Morris likening itself to the NAACP in order to get out of paying compensation to smokers.
Amy Coen | Posted 12.09.2008 | World
Most people believe that if a woman makes it to marriage without contracting HIV, she is safe. One woman profiled found out she was HIV-positive while she was pregnant with her fourth child.
James Warren | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media
If you inexplicably found any of those auto guys arousing in a more primal way, a leading news magazine suggests that "the quality of a man's sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa."
Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
The call to reduce unintended pregnancies is the right one. What we must focus on now are the means: sex education (not abstinence-only) and universal access to contraceptive services.
Cecile Richards | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Senator Clinton understands that improving the status of women is not simply a moral imperative; it is necessary to building democracies around the globe.
People | Posted 11.28.2008 | Entertainment
Ten years after shocking the world with the announcement that he has Parkinson's, Michael J. Fox is aggressively fighting the disease - and says he st...
Men's Health Lists | Posted 11.19.2008 | Living
Every nation has its weapons in the nutrition wars. For the Chinese, it's antioxidant-rich green tea. The French have their red wine. In Italy, it's o...
AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 11.19.2008 | Entertainment
LONDON — Winona Ryder was briefly hospitalized after falling ill on a flight to London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, her publicist said. Mara...
Amie Newman | Posted 11.18.2008 | Living
The Bush administration quickly released proposed regulations that would have disastrous effects on health care consumers, in particular women seeking contraception.
AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living
WASHINGTON — If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease's most common gene mutations, ...
Us | Posted 11.17.2008 | Entertainment
Tyra Banks surprises Isis King, the first transgender contestant on America's Next Top Model, with sex reassignment surgery in an episode of her talk ...
Newsweek | Jeneen Interlandi | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living
Liane Willey watched from behind a two-way mirror as doctors at the University of Kansas performed a series of psychological tests on her 5-year-old d...
Cecile Richards | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
In a poll commissioned by Planned Parenthood, Catholic voters' number-one response on family planning concerns were "too many unwanted children in America whose parents can't take care of them."
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living
Is she crazy, is she hormonal or is she finally shouting the truth? We're all familiar with the stereotype of the angry woman. A shrieking shrew who...
AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — This much is clear: The Obama daughters are welcome on the set of "Hannah Montana." But any talk that 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-o...
Times Online | Kate Wighton | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living
Let the battle of the thermostat begin. Now that the evenings have grown dark and chilly, most people have switched on their central heating. But many...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
With the election of Barack Obama, women voters who put him in the Oval Office will be waiting to see if gender issues are a priority.
Doug Bremner | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living
The authors of the study imply that menopause is linked to a decline in libido for women, and that they need to take a drug to correct that. But I'm not aware of any literature supporting this.
FINAL Update Wednesday 8:45 AM: Coulter appeared in the 7...
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A Katrina relief worker has just outed himself as an FBI mole, and...
First I saw a young protester telling a CNN reporter in Trafalgar Square, "Every single day,...
Barack Obama is not the only one being inaugurated on...
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's...
Rock wife Sharon Osbourne lashed out at a "Rock of Love...
A flurry of high-profile Twitter accounts have...
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An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a...
The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
Kirsten Moore | Posted 01.07.2009 | Living