Stock image of female soccer players. Women are better athletes when they’re menstruating, showing sharper response times and better cognitive function. “Regularly menstruating females performed ...

Should runners with a period track their menstrual cycles with the same attention to detail as HRV, nutritional intake, and sleep? Could period tracking really help athletes crack the code for a PR?

SEATTLE — That surge of anger and irritability many women experience before their periods doesn’t fade away as they approach menopause — it may actually intensify. A University of Washington study ...

Women have had enough of wasteful and impractical feminine hygiene products. For generations, women were limited when it came to period products. Now, female-led businesses are developing new products ...

Veronica Ewers said nothing, despite all the signs, despite the blood test results staring back at her, telling her the hormones in her body were barely present. Because the results came with an ...

Millions of women and girls experience "debilitating periods" but more than half say their symptoms are not taken seriously, a study has found. The survey, commissioned by charity Wellbeing of Women, ...

Being on your period may make you feel terrible, but new research suggests there’s a hidden and unexpected perk: It can make you smarter. That’s the main takeaway from a new study published in the ...

For three months this year, I bled nearly every day. My doctor doesn’t know why. Google doesn’t know why. The condition is simply called “postmenopausal bleeding,” and medicine’s best guess as to the ...

It’s not easy to be a woman. While great strides have been made in matters of gender equality, society still favors men. It would seem that Mother Nature favors men, too, or at least understands that ...

Q: I crave chocolate around the time of my period. Why does this happen? And how can I deal with it? A: Many studies have found that American women report craving chocolate around menstruation, often ...