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Access, Access to health care, Affordable care act, Birth control, Health insurance, Keep the care, Reproductive health, Reproductive rights, Women’s rights
Contraception Is Free to Women, Except When It’s Not
Read More: Contraception Is Free to Women, Except When It’s NotBy Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News For Stephanie Force, finding a birth control method that she likes and can get without paying out-of-pocket has been a struggle, despite the Affordable Care Act’s promise of free contraceptives for women and adolescent girls in most health plans. The 27-year-old physician recruiter in Roanoke, Virginia, was perfectly happy…
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Clinically Speaking: Talking to Patients About Uterine Fibroids
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Talking to Patients About Uterine FibroidsThis article was developed in partnership with The White Dress Project. Medically reviewed by Dr. Kristen A. Matteson Uterine fibroids are the most common gynecological condition among women of reproductive age. By the time they turn 50, up to 80% of all women will have developed fibroids, with 20% of those women experiencing symptoms that…
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Clinically Speaking: What Are My Options Following a Fibroid Diagnosis?
Read More: Clinically Speaking: What Are My Options Following a Fibroid Diagnosis?This article was developed in partnership with The White Dress Project. Medically reviewed by Dr. Kristen A. Matteson Uterine fibroids are the most common gynecological condition among women of reproductive age. By the time they turn 50, up to 80% of all women will have experienced fibroids, which are noncancerous (benign) growths that develop in…
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Clinically Speaking: What to Ask Your Healthcare Provider If You Think You Have Uterine Fibroids
Read More: Clinically Speaking: What to Ask Your Healthcare Provider If You Think You Have Uterine FibroidsThis article was developed in partnership with The White Dress Project. Medically reviewed by Dr. Kristen A. Matteson Uterine fibroids are the most common gynecological condition among women of reproductive age. By the time they turn 50, up to 80% of all women will have experienced fibroids, which are noncancerous (benign) growths that develop in…
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Abortion Opponents Are Chipping Away at Reproductive Rights — One State at a Time
Read More: Abortion Opponents Are Chipping Away at Reproductive Rights — One State at a TimeFor Laurie Roberts, helping women access abortion care means seeing them jump through one hoop after another. As co-director of the nonprofit Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund (MRFF), she’s fielding 35 calls per week from people seeking monetary, informational, logistical and emotional support for abortions. She shared a recent example, which she says is all too…
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Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider About Periods
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider About PeriodsMedically reviewed by Dr. Jessica Shepherd Half the world’s population get a period, but the stigma surrounding menstruation leaves many people feeling too ashamed or uncomfortable to talk freely about periods. As a result, symptoms like heavy bleeding may go undiscussed and undiagnosed, potentially causing serious health problems. How can we know what’s “normal” if…
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Yes, You Do Need Sex at Every Age
Read More: Yes, You Do Need Sex at Every AgeMay is Women’s Health Month. Medically reviewed by Dr. Heather Bartos It’s women’s health month, and it seems like a good time to mention that sexual health is just as important a part of women’s health as any other — and it remains important throughout a woman’s life. To delve into sexual health at every…
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Anxiety, Birth control, Contraception, Crohn’s, Crohn’s disease, Depression, Digestive disorders, Digestive health, Ibd, Inflammatory bowel disease, Medical tests, Relationships, Reproductive health, Self-Care, Sex, Sex & relationships
How Inflammatory Bowel Disease Affects Relationships, Sexual Health and Fertility
Read More: How Inflammatory Bowel Disease Affects Relationships, Sexual Health and FertilityMedically reviewed by Dr. Heather Bartos. Relationships are hard. Forming a close connection with another person while navigating choices around dating, sex and family planning can be tough for anyone. But add inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) into the mix, and things get extra complicated. Characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, IBD is an…
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Birth control, Birth control pills, Contraception, Orgasms, Relationships, Reproductive health, Sex, Sex & relationships, Sexual health
What Birth Control Is Right for You?
Read More: What Birth Control Is Right for You?For the best experience, please view in full screen mode. What Birth Control Is Right for You? Click here to for our interactive tool
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healthy aging, Menopause, Orgasms, Perimenopause, Relationships, Reproductive health, Sex, Sex & relationships, Sexual health
How to Have the Best Sex of Your Life After Menopause
Read More: How to Have the Best Sex of Your Life After MenopauseWhen Kathy Phillips approached menopause, she thought back to her mother’s experience with the transition. In Phillips’ memories, when her mother went through menopause, she began dressing old and actually became old. Phillips, 57, worried that she’d follow in her mother’s footsteps, but that wasn’t her experience. “It’s not that way at all. You can…
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Family, Family planning, Real women real stories, Relationships, Reproductive health, Sex & relationships
My Long Journey to Queer Motherhood
Read More: My Long Journey to Queer MotherhoodI was 28 and newly married when I first started talking to my partner, Kellie, about having a child. I had always known I had wanted to be a parent. Kellie had never been sure. We had married each other anyway, certain the issue would work itself out. If we’d been a heterosexual couple, chances…
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Breast cancer, Breast cancer survivor, Breast health, Family planning, Fertility, Infertility, Orgasms, Relationships, Reproductive health, Sex, Sex & relationships
Sex, Fertility and Breast Cancer
Read More: Sex, Fertility and Breast CancerBetween surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, stress, fear and exhaustion, sex may be the last thing on your mind. In fact, you may even be wondering if you’ll ever feel desire again. It’s a huge problem, with studies finding that 60% to 70% of women who have had breast cancer experience treatment-related sexual problems. The cause could…
