Women are expected to minimize our trauma and love our scars. Ten years after the writer suffered a hit-and-run accident that took her ear, she realized she didn't have to embrace...
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The pandemic’s toll on the country sparked another gruesome epidemic: black fungus—an infection whose treatment can be as brutal as the illness.
As the state’s 15-week abortion ban heads to the Supreme Court, Mississippi doctors talk reproductive health care access, fetal viablity, and maternal health.
We can’t stop our bodies from aging, but in this exclusive excerpt from their new book, ‘What Fresh Hell Is This?,’ Heather Corinna asks whether we can shake the cultural standard...
It’s perfectly reasonable to have some trepidation about the post-vaccine stage of the pandemic. A clinical psychologist explains how to cope with the anxieties and hesitancies that...
Losing a pregnancy is often traumatic, not only for the grief but for the way our society shames us for it. Could this pandemic restore our humanity toward one another?
The American healthcare system focuses on fixing an individual instead of addressing the factors that contribute to wellness, like safe housing, reliable food sources, and physical...
After women were excluded from sleep studies for decades, science is starting to catch up—and changing valuable statistics with it.
So many of us underestimate our pain, because we've been socialized to believe we're making something out of nothing. But aches are often an alarm system that can save our lives.
After nearly five years of being on edge, this is what it might take to reset our brains.