Stacker-Women’s Health

Perimenopause — literally meaning “around menopause” — describes the years leading up to menopause. People often talk about how difficult…

Experienced workers in women’s health may notice that the questions women actually have about menopause are rarely the ones they ask out loud. They…

  A few weeks after a healthy delivery, a young mother became convinced her husband was having an affair. There was no affair. But her parents…

  Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), which affects more than 170 million women worldwide, is now polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome…

  Women often manage work and family demands for months, all while pushing their own exhaustion aside. So by the time they ask a doctor why they…

  Eating disorders are still widely assumed to be a teenager’s condition, not something that surfaces in a 52-year-old woman juggling a…

  Creatine is not a new product. It’s a commodity ingredient that every supplement brand on earth already sells, and it’s been that…

  Women with higher blood levels of several common “forever chemicals” reached menopause about a year earlier than women with lower levels,…

  Postpartum psychosis is one of the most serious (but most misunderstood) perinatal mental health conditions. It’s a psychiatric emergency…

  Between her two young toddlers, her work as a seaweed farmer on Humboldt County’s coast, and a third baby on the way, Leslie Booher…

  More than 34% of women don’t know what reproductive stage they’re in, according to a new study published in The Menopause Society’s…

  Taylor Townsell remembers her OBGYN reassuring her that her IUD insertion would feel like “just a pinch.” The pain came a split second…

  The early postpartum period—often called the fourth trimester—is a time of major transition. While you’re getting to know your baby and…

Northwell Health reports that women’s heart health requires unique attention due to historical male bias in research affecting diagnosis and…