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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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 PlacesReport 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 stillbirthRecommendations 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 testUK 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 worldReport 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 fertilityScientists 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 patternsThe 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 infertilityResearchers 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 menopauseMore 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 EuropeShocking 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 yearReport 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 hopeSperm 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 struggleThe 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 tragedyTaking to her Twitter page, Amanda Holden spoke for the first time since losing her baby
By Marie Claire
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Christy Turlington tackles maternal mortalityReport Following her own terrifying ordeal during labour, Christy Turlington has put her hand to film-making and produced a powerful documentary on maternal health around the world
By Hannah Thomas
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First couple conceive using 'fertility sat nav'DuoFertility trial enabled couple to conceive using a temperature-measuring device
By Hannah Thomas
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Get yourself on fertile ground at the Fertility ShowThe Fertility Show is running it's second infertility exhibition at London Olympia
By Hannah Thomas
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Low libido, or just plain tired?Report Is there such a thing as low libido amongst women, or is life just too tiring for sex? Have your say...
By Hannah Thomas
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Are doctors taking miscarriages seriously?Report Do women receive enough support when they have a miscarriage, or are doctors shying away from the seriousness of this devastating experience?
By Marie Claire
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Fighting poverty with bottle topsReport Unique organisation Bottletop are continuing their crusade to alleviate poverty around the world with a focus on sexual and reproductive health...
By Hannah Thomas
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Should older women be denied the chance of IVF?Report Marie Claire asks how old is too old to be granted state-funded IVF?
By Kasie Davies
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Can a new hormone jab restore fertility?Twice-weekly injections of hormone kisspeptin have been found to repair a chemical imbalance in the female reproductive system...
By Marie Claire
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The Big Debate: Tweeting about miscarriageReport Was Penelope Trunk right to tweet about her miscarriage? Have your say here...
By Marie Claire
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