Women's Health

Menstrual Products Study

Menstrual discs are better for heavy periods than tampons or pads, study finds

FDA warns against using certain pregnancy, ovulation and UTI tests

FDA Pregnancy Tests

Pregnant women should get a shot to protect their babies from whooping cough – but most people don't know this

Pregnancy Vaccines Pertussis

Women who consume sugary drinks every day are at higher risk for liver cancer, study finds

Sugary drinks liver disease

A wearable device may one day help women detect breast cancer early – and at home

Breast Cancer Screening Bra

Black women weigh emerging risks of 'creamy crack' hair straighteners

Men historically have drank themselves to death more often than women – but that is changing, study finds

Alcohol Deaths Women

Once the new over-the-counter birth control pill is available, what about cost and coverage?

Opill Cost Insurance

First over-the-counter birth control pill approved by the FDA

Opill OTC Birth Control

New blood test predicts which pregnant women will develop preeclampsia

Preeclampsia Blood Test

A new law is supposed to protect pregnant workers — but what if we don’t know how?

Pregnant Workers Protections

Maternal deaths in the U.S. have more than doubled since 1999, study finds

Maternal mortality

To reduce maternal deaths, Pennsylvania will begin tracking pregnancy and birth complications

Maternal Morbidity Pennsylvania

The ugly side of beauty: Chemicals in cosmetics threaten college-age women’s reproductive health

Cosmetics Chemicals Fertility

Cycle syncing has women tailoring their workouts to their menstrual phases; here's how it works

Cycle Syncing Workouts

Mammograms at 40? Breast cancer screening guidelines spark fresh debate

Breast cancer screenings should begin at age 40, U.S. task force says

Breast Cancer Screenings

Breast cancer screenings for Black women should begin earlier, study finds

Breast Cancer Screening

People at high risk of breast cancer will have all screening costs, genetic testing covered by insurance in Pennsylvania

Susceptible to UTIs? Drinking cranberry juice can prevent them, study finds

Cranberry Juice UTIs

Toni Braxton says a doctor's visit saved her from a lupus-related heart attack

Toni Braxton Lupus

Medical advancements are giving breast cancer patients more surgical options

Breast cancer surgery

Emergency contraception is often confused with abortion pills – here's how Plan B works to prevent pregnancy

Shackling pregnant inmates would be banned in Pennsylvania prisons under proposed law

Pregnant Women Bill

Philly's soda tax has reduced risk of pregnancy complications, study finds

Soda tax maternal health

Before Roe v. Wade, a Philadelphia drug company sold women a fake abortion pill

Chichester abortion pills

Temple Health's new campus seeks to combat city's high maternal death rate

Temple Women & Families Campus

Gut microbes may help doctors diagnose gestational diabetes earlier in pregnancy, study finds

Gestational Diabetes Pregnancy

How to stop peeing when you laugh

Women Laugh Pee

To reduce infant deaths, Philly will give guaranteed incomes to 250 mothers

Infant mortality

Maternal deaths have surged to their highest mark since 1965, despite being mostly preventable

U.S. maternal mortality

To prevent ovarian cancer, more women should have their fallopian tubes removed, physicians say

Fallopian Tube Removal

Black women wait longer for uterine cancer tests and diagnoses, study finds

Racial Disparities Uterine Cancer

Pregnant women should be screened for all hypertensive disorders, U.S. task force recommends

Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy

Ovarian cancer often is not caught until its late stages; here are the symptoms that should prompt a doctor's visit

Ovarian Cancer

Women who get migraines may have higher risk for pregnancy complications, study shows

Pregnancy Complications Migraine

Eating ultra-processed foods like hot dogs and soda may increase risk of cancer, research shows

Ultra-processed foods cancer

Breast density is a risk factor for breast cancer, but many women don't realize it

Breast Cancer Density

6ABC reporter TaRhonda Thomas says she'll miss months to undergo surgery for uterine fibroids

TaRhonda Thomas Uterine Fibroids

COVID-19 has worsened the maternal health crisis in the U.S.

maternal health crisis in US

Hernias are often overlooked as the cause of chronic pelvic pain in women

Hernias women

Retail pharmacies now can sell abortion pills, but there are compliance issues, potential backlash to weigh

Abortion Pills Pharmacies

More women are choosing to give birth at home, but to do so safely requires certain precautions

Home Births

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