Half the world’s population menstruates and yet no one really wants to talk about it.
Author: Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY
Why it’s still so hard not to drink
Biology, human psychology and powerful cultural forces that dictate who controls and promotes alcohol can make it hard to abstain or cut back.
Characterizing cancer as a ‘war’ assumes it can be won. Is that too simple?
Many people living with cancer find fighting metaphors empowering, but others say they contribute to feelings of stress and inadequacy.
They left their children to fight a pandemic with no end. Would they do it again?
A year and a half ago, the world couldn’t stop talking about frontline healthcare workers. What happened?
A woman on TikTok wasn’t afraid to show her death. In the process, she helped others live.
The video app TikTok offers users an unexpectedly intimate space to navigate and narrate experiences with terminal illness, grief and dying.
Everyone’s talking about Gabby Petito, but they’re having the wrong conversation, experts say
Violence against women is common. More than half of female homicide victims are killed by a current or former male partner. Women of color are most at risk.
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Woman’s grocery list for husband goes viral and sparks conversation about men’s ‘strategic incompetence’
“Strategic incompetence” is a tactic of resistance where men pretend they are unable to perform certain tasks so women will do them instead.
Experts say Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s rape comments perpetuate a dangerous stereotype about sexual violence
Most perpetrators are not lurking on “the streets.” Most sexual violence is perpetrated by men who women know, admire and sometimes love.
The dangers of not talking to kids about sex
Some adults think talking to kids about sex will accelerate their sexual curiosity and activity. Sex educators disagree.