Female health
Empowering advice on hormones, fertility, sexual health, and menopause. Navigate your body’s changes with expert insights and supportive, tabboo-free guides.
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'HIV Is 3 Letters, Not A Sentence': Meet The Women Who Are Making The Stigma Surrounding HIV A Thing Of The Past
Report To mark World AIDs Day, we spoke to fitness instructor Becky Mitchell, who was diagnosed as HIV Positive in 2012 about their experiences around the virus…
By Marie Claire
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Fertility updates: The 2016 guide
Want children? Trying? Or maybe you’re just not sure? Charlotte Haigh MacNeil answers all your FAQs and gives you the most up-to-date options for starting a family
By Marie Claire
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What Does Breastfeeding *Really* Look Like? This Artist Reckons We've Got It All Wrong
Report After seeing too many unrealistic images of women breast feeding, Suzie Blake is fighting back
By Marie Claire
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Know 1000 Women? 21 Of Them May Have Experienced FGM
Report A new report details the extent of FGM - Female Genital Mutilation - across the UK. And the results are devastatingly depressing
By Marie Claire
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Why Aren't Chinese Women Allowed To Freeze Their Eggs Until They're Married?
Report Oh, and it's got nothing to do with population levels, by the way
By Marie Claire
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Is It Time To Re-Think Your Contraception?
Report When’s the last time you switched your contraception? Here's our round up of what's best for your health and relationship needs.
By Marie Claire
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Kim Kardashian Reveals That She And Kanye West Face More Fertility Struggles
'There is nothing on earth that I want more than to be pregnant again.’
By Caroline Leaper
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Angelina Jolie: I'm In Menopause After Having My Ovaries And Fallopian Tubes Removed
Angelina Jolie has written about her decision to have preventative surgery after cancer scare.
By Suzannah Ramsdale
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What it feels like to go through early menopause at 35
Opinion Hot flushes, night sweats, an aching sense of loss. Nia Fisher explains how it feels to go through early menopause
By Marie Claire
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Would You Freeze Your Eggs To Get To The Top?
Opinion Apple and Facebook now offer all female employees the chance to have their eggs frozen...
By Caroline Leaper
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Exposing The Shocking Tradition Of Chhaupadi, Where Women On Their Period Are Banned From Public Places
Report A powerful set of new images released by WaterAid today highlights just how difficult it is ‘To Be A Girl’ in cultures where menstruation is deemed taboo.
By Caroline Leaper
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Women over 40 at greater risk of stillbirth
Recommendations that pregnant women over 40 should be induced at 39 weeks
By Marie Claire
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Liverpool Women's Hospital will be first to offer new fertility test
UK hospital is first in Europe to offer a revolutionary type of fertility test
By Marie Claire
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Britain promises to provide contraception for 24 million extra women around the world
Report The British government has pledged to prevent the deaths of 42,000 women in the developing world between now and 2020
By Suzannah Ramsdale
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Lab-grown eggs provide unlimited fertility
Scientists have discovered women possess a potentially unlimited supply of eggs - raising new hopes for women with infertility problems
By Hannah Thomas
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Female fertility affects male speech patterns
The more fertile a woman, the more effort a man will make with conversation
By Marie Claire
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Protein levels could be key to infertility
Researchers believe female infertility and miscarriage could be caused by the malfunction of a single protein
By Hannah Thomas
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One in 20 women hit by early menopause
More than one in 20 women go through an early menopause before the age of 40 for no medical reason
By Marie Claire
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UK stillbirth rate among highest in Europe
Shocking reports suggests 4,000 stillborn babies in the UK could be saved each year with increased awareness among health professionals
By Hannah Thomas
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Should women put motherhood on ice?
Report As women continue to take the career ladder by storm motherhood can find itself being pushed further down the priority list, but medical advances could enable you to become a mum well into your 50s.
By Hannah Thomas
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More midwives could save 42,000 lives a year
Report Almost 48million mothers give birth without a midwife or attendant every year in the world's poorest countries according to a Missing Midwives survey by Save the Children
By Hannah Thomas
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Lab grown sperm provides fertility hope
Sperm has been successfully grown in a laboratory, providing infertile men with new hope of becoming biological fathers
By Hannah Thomas
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Should drug addicts be paid to use birth control?
Report Drug addicts will be paid to use birth control by US charity Project Prevention to prevent unwanted pregnancies, but is this right?
By Marie Claire
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Should women feel guilty about having a C-section?
Report In admitting her guilt-free Caesareans, Kirstie Allsopp has enraged natural birth lobbyists who demand that women should fight medical intervention in childbirth
By Marie Claire
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Nicole Kidman speaks out on 'rollercoaster' fertility struggle
The star has spoken about her fight to conceive and decision to use a surrogate, during an interview with Australian show, 60 Minutes
By Eleanor Young
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Is it right to remove a disabled woman’s right to give birth?
Report Motherhood is a right of women across the world. But for one this week, the right to have children was almost taken away
By Kasie Davies
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Amanda Holden thanks fans for support following stillbirth tragedy
Taking to her Twitter page, Amanda Holden spoke for the first time since losing her baby
By Marie Claire

