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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Living with endometriosis: what it's really like living with the conditionWriter Anya Meyerowitz has been living with endometriosis since she was a teenager. Here she reveals how it affects her daily life and career
By Jenny Proudfoot
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'I was only 24 and had no symptoms' - read one woman's shocking cervical cancer diagnosisReport This Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, read Stephanie Varden's powerful story - from chemo to seemingly having the all-clear
By Olivia Adams
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I tried the new period pain machine everyone's talking about: can this cute device really switch off cramps?A natural remedy that'll rid you of that dull ache for good? We put it to the test.
By Ally Head
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In a changed mindset, new Zimbabwe law offers pregnant teens the promise of educationReport With the economic fallout of COVID-19 contributing to skyrocketing rates of teenage pregnancy in Zimbabwe, a new law has been ushered in to protect the education of the young women affected.
By Marie Claire
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What it's really like to be a 24-year-old model…And HIV positiveReport To mark World AIDS Day, we spoke to 24-year-old model, art student and beauty queen Horcelie Sinda, who was diagnosed as HIV Positive as a child. This is her story...
By Olivia Adams
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COVID-19 Global Diaries: 'How my all-female, HIV-positive health workers are fighting two epidemicsReport It's World Aids Day 2020 and In Mozambique there are 2.2m people living with HIV, which is why Ilda Kuleba, country director of mothers2mothers, is on mission to protect those most at risk from coronavirus
By Niamh McCollum
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‘The menopause hit and I was totally unprepared for it’Menopause may not be on the horizon for you right now, but learning what to expect will be invaluable for your mental and physical health. Jennifer Nadel, co-founder of Compassion in Politics, marks World Menopause Day by sharing how menopause turned her life upside down and set her on a new path. A must-read for every woman, whatever your age
By Maria Coole
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'Why is talking about the signs of menopause still TMI?'Beauty giant Avon is calling a time out on menopause
By Sarah Barnes
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'A masked stranger with good intentions': an NHS midwife on the frontlineOpinion Stephanie, a 25-year-old midwife based in a hospital in the Midlands, details her worries about how her vital role providing care for women and their babies being born during the Covid-19 pandemic has changed
By Olivia Adams
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#happyYOUyear: why The Happy Vagina podcast is your next must-listenGet ready to talk vaginas, bodies, periods, sex and getting tested with Mika Simmons
By Olivia Adams
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Here's why teenage mothers in Cambodia are in crisis and what you can do to helpReport As rates of teenage pregnancy escalate across Cambodia, so too are the numbers of young mothers going without food − with devastating consequences. Corinne Redfern reports
By Corinne Redfern
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Jameela Jamil just spoke candidly about having an abortionBy Jenny Proudfoot
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Chrissy Teigen has an important message for women about pregnancy weight gainAnd we love her even more for it.
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Emilia Clarke has broken her silence on the two brain aneurysms she almost lost her life to'In my worst moments, I wanted to pull the plug. I asked the medical staff to let me die.'
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Viva la vulva - respinning our most misunderstood body partReport It’s time to change the conversation around the vulva, says author Lynn Enright, whose book on female genitalia is part of a new wave of art and literature on the subject
By Marie Claire
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Kristen Bell's terrifying menstrual cup experience will haunt youBack to tampons, anyone?
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Gwyneth Paltrow is rebranding menopause with her new line 'Madame Ovary'And we're here for it.
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Nicole Kidman opens up about the 'massive grief' of suffering a miscarriageAnd it's very powerful.
By Jenny Proudfoot

