Don't worry, emotional overeaters; your future is bright, sort of. Thanks to a collaborative study between the Microsoft Research Institute and the University of Rochester, a new, emotional-stress-detecting bra and mobile app duo may soon be giving your already fragile emotional state the extra guilt it needs to… Read on Gizmodo 12/05/13 10:57pm Thursday 10:57pm

Going to the gyno is enough of a pain in the cervix without the fear that the doctor between your legs is snapping pictures without your knowledge. But, for 9,000 ex-patients of deceased Johns Hopkins gynecologist Dr. Nikita Levy, that seemingly irrational fear may actually have been warranted. Bleargh. Read… 11/06/13 7:15pm 11/06/13 7:15pm

Bet you didn't have this marked on your calendar: today is World Vasectomy Day, a holiday celebrated not with parades or fireworks, but with the delicate snip of two tiny tubes. But is such a largely permanent step really our only male birth control option? Where's the male version of the pill? Read on Gizmodo 10/18/13 4:59pm 10/18/13 4:59pm

As anyone who's ever seen an episode of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman can tell you, women make better doctors than men — and not just the lady doctors of the late -1800s American West, but the lady doctors of today, too! I know, I can hardly believe it myself, but a new report released by the University of Montreal… Read… 10/18/13 11:10am 10/18/13 11:10am

Thanks to the efforts of conservatives who got elected based on lying to the electorate about knowing how to do stuff like "create jobs" and "fix the economy" (LOL), it's been a generation since getting an abortion was this big a pain in the ass — albeit not as big a pain in the ass as carrying a pregnancy for 9 months,… Read… 10/10/13 2:10pm 10/10/13 2:10pm

TIME should get it over with and change its name to TROL magazine already, because 1- seriously, that's all they do now, and 2- both TIME and TROL work as knuckle tats, and I think knuckle tat-ability should be considered more frequently in the naming of things. Read… 8/23/13 3:20pm 8/23/13 3:20pm

A Dutch woman in her mid-50s visited the doctor because her left foot was sending her frequent orgasms — I think we all wish we could say the same about our HUSBANDS, right ladies? AMIRITE? I don't know — which occurred with no sexual stimulation or thoughts. Read… 6/29/13 12:30pm 6/29/13 12:30pm

Doug Wilson (it’s an outdated Weeds reference people, — please try to keep up with my creaky analogies) isn’t the only yearning male entrepreneur who saw the simple brilliance in adapting Avon’s door-to-door cosmetics peddling strategy to fit his own schemes. The ironically-surnamed Chuck Slaughter, founder and… Read… 6/23/13 1:00pm 6/23/13 1:00pm

You've probably heard the murmurs of panic surrounding the rash of potentially lethal meningitis cases in New York City, especially if you're a gay male. Since 2010, 22 cases of meningococcal meningitis have been reported, and those infected have exclusively been gay or bisexual men. 13 of those cases happened last… Read… 5/29/13 6:50pm 5/29/13 6:50pm

Breast cancer researchers in the UK have noticed a troubling trend recently, which is that more women under the age of 50 are being diagnosed with breast cancer. A record number of women under 50, actually — according to Cancer Research UK, 10,068 women under the age of 50 in the UK were diagnosed with the disease in… Read… 5/03/13 9:40am 5/03/13 9:40am

Despite mounting evidence that the HPV vaccine does not, in fact, turn teens into whore monsters, more parents are crossing their arms, frowning suspiciously, and insisting to their friendly, neighborhood GP that they will not be vaccinating their daughters against HPV, thankyouverymuch. Read… 3/18/13 5:15pm 3/18/13 5:15pm

Have you ever gotten a pimple? Of course you have, you zit-riddled monster! Like many acne sufferers, you too probably turned to the commercial smorgasbord of topical acne treatments hawked by celebrities and clear-skinned teenagers from a parallel universe where everyone is attractive at every stage of development.… Read… 3/03/13 4:30pm 3/03/13 4:30pm

In things that you thought only happened at Seattle's Grace Hospital, medical professional magicians at a London hospital recently drastically dropped a baby's core temperature for four days to save his life. Dude. Science. Right? Read… 2/13/13 10:00am 2/13/13 10:00am

While a trip to the gynecologist is never a good time, it's still ridiculously important that you go regularly and soon it will be even more so. A new study suggests that a pap smear can, in addition to detecting cervical cancer, detect uterine and ovarian cancer. Read… 1/10/13 3:50pm 1/10/13 3:50pm

Researchers in China have isolated a powerful antimicrobial agent in the blood of endangered giant pandas, a peptide that could be effective against a wide range of dangerous drug-resistant microorganisms. A pandacea, if you will. (MY BAD.) Read… 1/02/13 2:25pm 1/02/13 2:25pm

A collaboration of brainiacs from the MRC's Regenerative Medicine Centre and Cambridge University's Veterinary School reversed the paralysis after injecting them with cells grown from the lining of their noses. They're "cautiously optimistic the technique could eventually have a role in the treatment of human patients."… Read… 11/21/12 10:00am 11/21/12 10:00am

Pregnancy tests, those things you pee on while you're anxiety-crying, actually have another, equally anxiety inducing use: testicular cancer detection. In men. New thing to say to the clerk at CVS in attempt to break the side-eye land speed record: "It's not for me; it's for my boyfriend who might have cancer." Read… 11/09/12 1:30pm 11/09/12 1:30pm

If you're twenty or older, "stroke" might soon mean more to you than just Julian Casablancas. According to a new study of 1.3 million Americans published in the American Academy of Neurology, the rate of strokes suffered among people ages 20 to 54 jumped over 5% from 1993 to 2005, specifically from 12.9 to 18.6%. Read… 10/13/12 2:00pm 10/13/12 2:00pm

Women's health expert and Senate candidate Todd Akin has said some pretty impressive dumb shit this election season. But did you know that the Missouri Congressman has been saying stupid crap about women for years now? In 2008, he gave a speech about how dastardly abortion doctors were performing abortions on "women who … Read… 10/03/12 1:05pm 10/03/12 1:05pm

A new study examining the pros, cons, and practicality of physicians making their notes available online has found that 87% of patients accessed the notes when given the opportunity. I mean, duh, right? Everyone on earth is a little bit of a narcissist—so who wouldn't want to read an honest, professional assessment… Read… 10/02/12 4:30pm 10/02/12 4:30pm

I'm not going to lie to you the way the author of a kitschy children's book might lie to you — not everyone poops. Really wealthy people, for instance, don't poop. Neither do starfish. Or hummingbirds, bless their fluttering little hearts. Nor do flowers poop. Nevertheless, we all need to talk about pooping way more… Read… 9/27/12 11:15pm 9/27/12 11:15pm

Italian scientists have announced that they've discovered a positive correlation between women being remarkably good looking and the likelihood that she'll have one of the worst kinds of lady pain. Leave it to the home of Silvio "Bunga Bunga" Berlusconi to commission a study that tracks the relationship between a woman's … Read… 9/21/12 4:50pm 9/21/12 4:50pm

In a move practically guaranteed to set a world record for Most Angry Emails Received, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has finally taken a formal stance on circumcision of baby boys. Their conclusion? It doesn't reduce sexual pleasure in adult men, prevents a host of diseases, and is a practice they endorse… Read… 8/27/12 4:10pm 8/27/12 4:10pm

Since Todd Akin was more than willing to share his "scientific" knowledge of rape with a (mostly) nonplussed American public, it seems only fair that some legitimate medical doctors should get a chance to perhaps offer a more erudite perspective. Akin's claim that "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing… Read… 8/21/12 12:50pm 8/21/12 12:50pm

Today's the day that the Affordable Care Act's women's health package officially kicks in, eliminating copay on many health services for millions of women — but what how will that change how you go to the doctor? Why not ask one yourself! Read… 8/01/12 12:30pm 8/01/12 12:30pm