Synthetic opioids hijack the mu-opioid receptor with such potency that withdrawal becomes intolerable: bone pain, vomiting, ...

Modern maternity care often falls short in providing the steady, attentive support that birthing women need and deserve.

Same-sex couples lined up outside the City Clerk’s Office in Manhattan last Sunday to take advantage of New York’s first day of legal marriage for same-sex couples. A few counter protesters were ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

The rape and sexual abuse of Jewish women during the Holocaust have been long overlooked. But when researchers probed, stories began to emerge as if they were old photographic film waiting for the ...

“We’ve been through this before. It’s not new, the pendulum swings. We just have to brace ourselves and focus on what we can control.” Upon consideration of upcoming changes in the mental health ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...

These spaces aren’t just about connection – they’re arenas of advocacy, empowerment, and solidarity, representing a new kind of social value. A quiet revolution is unfolding for disabled women on ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

Restricted and repetitive behaviors, along with strong preferences for sameness in both behavior and environment, are noted as hallmark features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Structured routines ...

“Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral failure.” I’ve been that mother in the grocery store line, food stamps in hand, ...