Health & Medicine / Women’s Health

Vital Signs: Confusing Cues

A spreading rash signals something far more dangerous than a skin condition. 11.02.2009

Reading Women's Biological Clocks

Computational geneticist Tara Matise looks for biomarkers that predict when women will become infertile. 09.29.2009

Vital Signs: Where's That Infection?

What seems like an ordinary urinary tract infection can sometimes be much worse. 07.15.2009

IVM: A Fertility Treatment that Could Mean Pregnancy for Half the Cost

A cheaper, gentler alternative to IVF may bring hope to infertile couples. 06.09.2009

The Cancer That Itches

A "deep" itch can signal that something's really wrong. 02.15.2008

Forever Young

Suzanne Somers says special hormones can keep women young. Should they listen? 11.13.2007

The Good, the Bad, and the Tiny

The oddly oxymoronic effects of steroids on the human body 10.18.2007

Hormone Therapy: Sooner, Later, or Not at All?

Sorting out the cloudy issue that is estrogen replacement 06.11.2007

The Battle Over The Cervical Cancer Vaccine Heats Up

Should adolescent girls be required to get it? 04.25.2006

When Women Go Bald

A scientist's painful battle with balding drives her to find the genetic basis for hair loss 02.20.2006

Men Hear Women's Melodies

Men Hear Women's Melodies 11.22.2005

Mind Over Moods

This is your brain on PMS. 10.28.2005

Vital Signs

End-of-term complications in a difficult pregnancy almost kill a mother 05.01.2005

Labor of Lungs

08.02.2004

Vital Signs

Will a young mother bleed to death after giving birth? 04.21.2004

Medicine

01.02.2004

Vital Signs

What could be tormenting a woman who lives such a sheltered life? 10.01.2003

Vital Signs

She looked healthy, yet the X ray suggested she would soon die 05.01.2003

The scientist who hated abortion

Endocrinologist Joel Brind says research has shown him the truth about abortion, and that's why he set out on a crusade that now reaches into the heart of the nation's most powerful cancer agency. But what if he's wrong? 02.01.2003

Medicine

01.01.2003

Vital Signs

Where did it go? 10.01.2002

Bad Science and Breast Cancer

For more than a decade, physicians convinced breast cancer patients that bone marrow transplants were their best hope of salvation. But the insurance companies who resisted paying for the procedures were right all along: It was experimental medicine and most women were a lot better off without it. How could so many oncologists ignore basic principles of science? 08.01.2002

Sex, Drugs, and PMS

11.01.2001

Vital Signs

Why are so many women in this family unable to conceive? 12.01.2000

The Biology of . . . Morning Sickness

Why do pregnant women get nauseated just when their bodies most need food? 09.01.2000

Tiny Invader

02.01.1999

Why Women Change

Why are human females hobbled in their prime by menopause? 07.01.1996

No Longer Human

12.01.1992