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.

A transgendered English professor spends a year teaching in her old identity as a man. This fall, Justine Nicholas reveals her new gender identity to students and teachers and receives some surprising ...

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 ...

The work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, a husband and wife team, in the 1930s shaped Sweden’s progressive population policies, says Steven Philip Kramer in this excerpt from “The Other Population Crisis.” ...

While most cases of preeclampsia arise in pregnancy, it turns out my experience of having a healthy pregnancy with normal blood pressures and being diagnosed after delivery is not uncommon. Even ...

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 ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons. In a meeting with President Trump and his Cabinet, he once again claimed, without evidence, that Tylenol ...

Sitting on the couch, I watched as Juror 75, a middle-aged Indian man clad in a white button-up, explain his decision not to indict Sean “Diddy” Combs on two sex-trafficking counts. “He’s beating her, ...

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 ...

It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the ...