Synthetic opioids hijack the mu-opioid receptor with such potency that withdrawal becomes intolerable: bone pain, vomiting, ...

Modern maternity care often falls short in providing the steady, attentive support that birthing women need and deserve.

Same-sex couples lined up outside the City Clerk’s Office in Manhattan last Sunday to take advantage of New York’s first day of legal marriage for same-sex couples. A few counter protesters were ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

In most U.S. states, the minimum marriage age for minors that have parental consent ranges from 12 to 17 years old. Headlines are sprouting everywhere about new court cases which may endanger Roe v ...

On his very first day in office, President Donald Trump fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman in American history to lead a branch of the armed forces. She was evicted from her residence with ...

Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...

Colombian singer Greeciy and her partner had the joyous occasion of having a son together two years ago. But in early April, the singer took to TikTok to share that after that birth in 2022, she was ...

My friend sounded proud. Real proud, when she announced that the heterosexual couple, who had been trying for over two years to start a family, had finally succeeded. “My son is pregnant!” she ...

This afterbirth has spiritual and religious significance in different parts of the world, says Y.W. Loke in this excerpt from “Life’s Vital Link.” But perhaps it’s overlooked in Western culture since ...