Menopause has long been thought of as a terminal moment for the female reproductive system, when ovaries stop releasing eggs and presumably call it a day.

A Weizmann Institute study of over 300 million lab tests shows that menopause marks a sharp, body-wide physiological turning ...

Women have immune systems that have long been found to fight infections more aggressively than men’s, which helps protect ...

A mixed-methods study in southern Chad finds that while nearly all residents know about urinary schistosomiasis, only about 3 ...

Ten parasites that sound like they belong in science fiction—but are actually real. From fungi that manipulate ant behavior ...

But all animals use carotenoids to fight off disease, such as boosting immune cells to destroy any harmful bacteria. Only ...

When doctors are paid less to treat women’s health concerns, hospitals allocate fewer resources to those services, leading to ...

Science reviews sex-specific medicine across women’s lifespan, from pregnancy and menopause to chronic pain and aging ...

The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is such a problem for Florida that it’s legal to hunt the massive invasive species ...

Sarah Richardson, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality, ...

Yet even as women’s health has been receiving more attention than perhaps ever before, women remain poorly represented in clinical trials, and female health poorly understood compared to male health.

For well over a century, doctors dismissed a horseshoe-shaped structure next to the ovary as useless evolutionary junk, but ...