HealthOctober 23, 2024
What Do Societal Beauty Standards Have to Do with Breast Cancer?
An epidemiologist explores a troubling rise in early-onset breast cancer diagnoses and discusses the potential link to chronic exposure to endocrine disruptors.
Women’s Health
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MedicineJune 6, 2024
Should Blood Pressure Guidelines Be Different for Women and Men?
Blood pressure guidelines are the same for men and women despite important sex differences in hypertension risk
CancerJune 2, 2023
When Should You Get a Mammogram?
Medical boards and task forces recommend mammogram screenings for breast cancer begin at age 40. But people in high-risk groups may want to consider getting tested even earlier
OpinionMay 13, 2022
To Better Understand Women’s Health, We Need to Destigmatize Menstrual Blood
Diseases such as endometriosis would have a cure if we could talk about them and study them without shame
MedicineSeptember 1, 2021
Why Nearly 80 Percent of Autoimmune Sufferers Are Female
The effects of sex hormones, X chromosomes and different gut microbes may be parts of the answer