health

While many elected officials in the United States have used the covid-19 pandemic to quietly push for anti-abortion…

At the risk of stating the obvious, when times are tough, music often serves as comfort. I’ve found myself leaning…

Welcome to that time of the year: when swarms of self-professed out-of-shape people vow to get swole or simply in…

Women and girls typically under the age of 21 don’t need to get routine pap smears, but a new study from the CDC…

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her ever present tennis shoes are fit, according to her doctor. Extremely…

The phone at Carol Stuart’s shared Potrero Hill home rang regularly in 1998—often from sex workers, often when they…

Last night, while engaging in my favorite evening activity—procrastinating and feeling morally superior on Twitter—I…

Bernie Sanders is recovering after experiencing chest discomfort and having two stents placed to treat an artery…

Tiffany Trump, the least complicit and most neglected of the Trump children, and mother Marla Maples were spotted…

It seemed virtually inevitable that I would be thrown out of AutismOne, a yearly conference that has been accused…

Influencers have long operated as the Wild West of Instagram—drawing huge followings that bring in big bucks, with…

Emergency contraception (EC) is designed to prevent pregnancy. Some may choose it as their primary method of…

Online eating disorder subculture, pockets of the internet where largely young women and girls share inspiration and…

Among high-income countries, the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality, one that’s more than doubled in…

Climate change affects poor and vulnerable communities before it affects wealthier ones, and what’s happening in…

My roommate loves wellness trends—she drinks water and lemon every day, makes kombucha in our apartment, and tries…

The other day, my patient, who I’ll call Sam, came in for a routine sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening…

Dozens of women who say their health has been harmed by breast implants called on the Food and Drug Administration…