Broken Medicine Miranda Culp Apr 30, 2019

Can the “Wellness” Industry Solve Our Healthcare Crisis?

Miranda Culp Apr 30, 2019

Women frustrated by conventional medicine’s failures are turning to alternative therapies, with varying results. But if regulated and supported by physicians, an integrated approach could cure our broken system.

Broken Medicine Erin Biba Apr 22, 2019

Why Are So Many Women Rejecting Medical Science?

Erin Biba Apr 22, 2019

Women are habitually mistreated, misdiagnosed, and not even included in medical research. As a booming “wellness” industry lures them with fast cures, many can’t resist the temptation.

Investigation Miranda Culp Jan 8, 2019

What Is Causing Some Women to Kill Their Newborns?

Miranda Culp Jan 8, 2019

A startling pattern of trauma and pregnancy denial incites young women to do the unthinkable. Are we criminalizing women with a rare dissociative disorder?

Women's Health Victoria Brownworth Dec 3, 2018

The Deadliest Cancer for Women Is Not the One You Think

Victoria Brownworth Dec 3, 2018

Lung cancer kills more women than any other—and is being diagnosed in younger women at increasing rates. So where are the ribbons and races for the cure?

First Person Lauren Rankin Nov 15, 2018

Do You Ever Really Recover From An Eating Disorder?

Lauren Rankin Nov 15, 2018

Inspiring stories of anorexia or bulimia “recovery” make headlines, but for those struggling with the lifelong disease, the message may cause more harm than good.

Access Denied Andy Kopsa Nov 1, 2018

Religious “Freedom” Is Trumping Our Safety

Andy Kopsa Nov 1, 2018

Pharmacists with extremist religious views are refusing to fill prescriptions for safe, legal medication like Misoprostol, which helps ease complications from miscarriage—putting people’s lives at risk.

Environment Amy Roost Oct 4, 2018

What Has Been Making My Kids So Sick?

Amy Roost Oct 4, 2018

Exposure to the chemical chlorpyrifos, which is in flea bombs, may have caused birth defects in the writer’s children. Now she’s fighting to uncover the truth to protect other families.

Reading Women Soraya Chemaly Sep 11, 2018

Is Our Anger Making Us Sick?

Soraya Chemaly Sep 11, 2018

In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, ‘Rage Becomes Her,’ author Soraya Chemaly looks at the way rage—expressed and suppressed—may affect women’s health.

Broken Medicine Sophia Kercher Aug 20, 2018

We’re Becoming a Nation Without Doctors

Sophia Kercher Aug 20, 2018

What will happen for our aging population and women's health care when we face a shortage of primary care physicians?

Broken Medicine Victoria Brownworth Jun 27, 2018

Transvaginal Mesh Is Ruining Women’s Lives

Victoria Brownworth Jun 27, 2018

The surgical procedure, to correct pelvic organ prolapse, has left thousands of women in pain, injured, and even disabled. If only their doctors warned them.