Women's Health Features

Fed up with feeling fat, 'women of size' are turning to nightclubs and groups where big is beautiful and the skinny ones are spurned.

How Drugs Affect the Sexes

Gender differences extend to nearly every aspect of human behavior, including how we handle stress. While men face troubles head on or ignore them completely, women in stressful situations focus on bonding with friends and nurturing family. Researchers may now understand why.

Learning about your family tree -- from your great-grandparents' birthplace to the story of your parents' courtship -- is fun and interesting. But knowing your medical genealogy can help save your life.

Hot Flashes, Infertility, Happen Earlier Than You'd Expect

You don't have to be bone-tired during treatment.

New Season Brings Boost of Energy, but Also Unplanned Pregnancies

All too often, women -- wives, moms, sisters, friends -- are either nagging the men in their lives about their lax attitude toward health care or playing caretaker to them when things go wrong. Here are some expert tips for helping the men in your life get healthy.

One in five women lives with chronic pain, and she may find it difficult to get help. The problem can be traced back to the differences in how boys and girls are raised as well as lagging medical knowledge of how treatments affect women specifically.

Not everyone who gets dumped or divorced shifts effortlessly from anger to 'over it.' A man may still be in love with his ex and wish things had turned out differently. But even if that's the case, he still could be in love with the new woman in his life. Sound complex? It is.

Women-friends are less biased about your love life than the ones you share with your man. So listen up!

When you feel lousy, but look fine, you may have quite a hard time finding a doctor, or even a friend, to take your complaints seriously. But do your homework, be persistent, and find the help and support you need to get well. Getting to the root of your problem may take time and try your patience ... but what's more important than your health?

Aging isn't a matter of just fading away. Active, older people -- and some experts on the aging process -- say we can stay physically robust well into our later years.

The argument over whether mercury in silver dental fillings is dangerous has spilled over into the courts, with a consumer advocacy group accusing the American Dental Association of deliberately misleading the public -- and endangering health.

The Monthly Bill. The Woman's Curse. The nicknames we give to the monthly shedding of the uterus lining reflect the troubles it brings. So how do you know what's normal and what's not?

Many autoimmune ailments like lupus, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis are misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Where does that leave suffering women?

Caregiving is a relentless job that so isolates the one providing care that she becomes 'invisible' to family, friends, and the healthcare team. This isolation and invisibility puts the caregiver at risk for serious illness of her own -- and even death.

They're grumpy, they're grouchy ... and there's nothing wrong with that. A growing group of critics contend that there's nothing dysfunctional, dysphoric, or diseased about a woman's natural hormonal rhythms -- period.

Mom deserves a lot more credit than we give her. Here are 10 things that she got right.

Across the country, women are making it clear that they prefer female physicians. Medical schools are responding -- but is it discrimination?

Cereals, energy bars, and soy drinks designed for women are one of the latest trends in new products.

Not everyone achieves perfect eyesight. Consider the pluses and minuses before deciding if it's right for you.

Not everyone achieves perfect eyesight. Consider the pluses and minuses before deciding if it's right for you.

Lung cancer is America's leading cancer killer. Women who smoke seem especially resistant to the message.

Programs to combat dating and domestic abuse are aiming for younger, middle school audiences.

Weight gain, facial hair, irregular menstruation -- all are symptoms of a hormonal disorder that plagues millions of women. Here's how to spot it.

Weight gain, facial hair, irregular menstruation -- all are symptoms of a hormonal disorder that plagues millions of women. Here's how to spot it.

How do you get a group of women to improve their cardiovascular health? Get them moving.

A new study shows that women may not deal with stress in the same way as men.

A new study shows that women may not deal with stress in the same way as men.

A new study shows that women may not deal with stress in the same way as men.

Should you join a peer support group? Probably. Just make sure you choose the right sort.

After battling broken bones, a difficult birth, and even cancer, triathlete Karen Smyers is finally on the road to recovery. What's her secret?

Some people in great emotional pain turn to cutting, burning, and other types of self-abuse. How can you recognize this cry for help?

Want your man to know you better? A crash course in how a woman's body works might just help.

Abortion rates are down. Why Americans aren't having less sex, but they are doing a better job of family planning.

Considered by some to be the stealth technology of women's health care, the computer-aided second reading is now regarded as a reliable way for doctors to look for breast abnormalities that the naked eye may have missed.

How can you, as a female patient or caregiver, better cope with the stress and emotions that you face? Here are some tips that may make your life easier.

It's no surprise that sickness in the family can lead to lots of stress. But why do women suffer more than men?

Tips to Help Women Cope

Tips to Help Women Cope

The Internet has made it simple for women to spread health information with a click of the mouse. Some of these health claims gain steam as women discuss the alleged dangers of everyday products.

Ten years ago, a woman suffering a heart attack was too often misdiagnosed. Without the chest pains commonly seen in men, her symptoms of dizziness or back pain were often dismissed as unimportant.

Taking prescription drugs in a wrong way can lead to serious problems -- even poisoning.

Women have been going to their gynecologists for Pap tests for more than 50 years. And their vigilance has paid off: Mortality rates from cervical cancer have dropped 70%, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. But a woman's chance of getting a false negative -- a result that says she's healthy when she really has cancer or pre-cancerous cells -- is still between 10

Information on how to cope with menopause and where to go for additional information about it.

Although the numbers are small, more and more women are choosing a self-directed approach to birth.

Sure, cigarettes can harm anybody, men and women alike. But some of smoking's ill effects, from ectopic pregnancy to premature menopause, are reserved for women only.