Menstruation, or a period, is the bleeding that occurs about monthly in healthy people born with a uterus, from puberty to ...

After adjusting for factors such as age, education, high blood pressure and diabetes, researchers linked the ...

The most common formulation of birth control pills has been linked to a doubling of relative risk of heart attack and stroke, ...

Worldwide, 1 in 10 women of reproductive age suffer from a condition known as endometriosis. It’s an illness where tissue ...

"If it weren't dismissed as 'just period pain' and women being dramatic, people would realize how terrible it is," Dr. Irene ...

However, each woman's absolute risk remained low: Use of the estrogen/progestin pill translated to one extra stroke for every ...

Some hormonal contraceptives are associated with a small but significant increased risk of stroke and heart attack ...

The study revealed the risk of developing venous thromboembolisms from various types of synthetic hormones, providing important information going beyond just progesterone-only or combined.