Women

Laverne Hart, a World War II Navy veteran and retired insurance auditor from Chicago’s south suburbs, enjoys her almost daily card games and lunches a...

Women with breast cancer have tough decisions to make. But pregnant women and those who want to have children down the road have even more to consider...

Makeup might make you look and feel great — but have you stopped to consider what it’s doing to your skin? Be it eyeshadow, mascara or foundation, the...

Ask dermatologist Dr. Joseph Bikowski what causes acne, and he’ll start by listing what does not: “Dirt, grease, grime, oil, soft drinks, nuts, chocol...

Even the most confident amongus would admit to doing it. You walk intoa room, scan the crowd and start makingcomparisons: “She’s so much thinnerthan m...

According to the Oxford Dictionary, a boundary is defined as “a line that marks the limits of an area.” In more straightforward terms, it’s the line y...

What if you were offered the only known vaccine to prevent cancer? And furthermore, that vaccine had no more negative side effects — potential for low...

When Jacky and Joe Crane learned they were expecting, they were ecstatic, immediately sharing the exciting news with loved ones via Facebook. As they ...

Thanks to glands of the endocrine system like the ovaries, testes, thyroid and hypothalamus, special chemical messengers known as hormones influence t...

Hair loss (or alopecia) for a woman can be emotionally painful. While some men with no hair are considered handsome, this is not the case for women wh...

Lisa VerWeire didn’t plan to become a mother in her early 40s. It’s just the path life led her down. “Everyone hopes to wait until the perfect time, b...

“My whole life, as soon as I began menstruating, my periods would cause me to double over in pain,” Megan Latulippe says. She has lived with a conditi...

Want to be more productive, successful and organized? Want less chaos in your life and more Zen? Establishing a routine after you wake up – whether it...

Pelvic pain and urinary incontinence in women are things that, even though they are widespread, are seldom discussed, says physical therapist Kimberly...

When flying in a plane, the flight attendant reminds passengers to put their own oxygen mask on before helping others. The same analogy is true for wo...

Dr. Francis Finneran grew up in New York in a small neighborhood in Queens, where he got the idea to become a physician. “My grandfather was an obstet...

At some point between trudging out another mile on the treadmill and willing yourself to choose carrot sticks over carrot cake, you’ve probably had th...

Scroll through your phone and there’s a good chance you have a few apps for tracking the details of your life: What you ate, how far you ran, how well...

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced in 2015 that they were going to have a baby girl, the couple revealed so...

In recent decades, breast cancer awareness campaigns have helped raise the profile of the disease and prompted more women to tune in to their bodies. ...