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Olivia got better after her parents helped her find therapy. But that solution may not be available for many black girls. A growing body of research finds the U.K. mental health system falling short for people from marginalized communities.
While health data analytic companies promise to use technology to help individuals and employers make better decisions for their health and their bottom line, your privacy is more important than the small benefits provided.
“As a queer teen, you have to worry about so much more,” says one girl. With these concerns not being covered by school health programs, LGBTQ+ teens are turning elsewhere for advice. For many, that’s not the healthiest thing to do.
That made me rare if not unique. Very few women raise this concern even though there are plenty of reasons to prioritize sex. We must open a door on this part of the treatment and recovery process and here are three ways to start.
As California bucks the U.S. trend in worsening maternal health, a project focused on two major risks–obstetric hemorrhage and preeclampsia–is gaining notice. Next year it will start targeting unnecessary C-sections among first-time mothers.
As Breast Cancer Awareness Month winds down, a skeptical doctor, struggling with her own form of cancer, mulls the bigger meaning of all the things people do in the name of awareness.
Evidence of the chemical TPHP was found in all 26 women in a study by researchers at Duke University and the Environmental Working Group. But the medical dangers still aren’t clear so at least one avid user isn’t panicking yet.
Tobacco ad jingles that spurred female smoking during the 1970s are echoing darkly in current U.S. health data. “You’ve come a long way, baby,” could now be applied to U.S. women’s near parity with men in dying from smoking-related illnesses.
Ysabel Duron, founder of Latinas Contra Cancer, is on a mission to lower cancer mortality among Latinas. In this five-question interview she talks about what works and problems, such as scarce research, that desperately need a remedy.
A problem flagged by Dr. Bernadine Healy, the National Institutes of Health’s first female leader, more than two decades ago, continues and it’s detrimental for all women, particularly so for women of color.