Myths about birth control are as old as the hills. But social media platforms, in particular TikTok and Instagram, are allowing false information to proliferate in new and dangerous ways. The stakes ...

Women pay more than men for haircuts and dry cleaning. They wait longer to use public restrooms. And in the latest indignity—at least for the short term in Oregon—women at America's colleges and ...

Steiner is a research associate professor and the director of research translation at CONVERGE at University of Pittsburgh. As a public health behavioral scientist who has spent my career researching ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Anika Nayak was a news intern at STAT. As a freelance health reporter, she has covered sleep medicine, nutrition, and mental health via service journalism. A typical vending machine on a university ...

When I was twenty-two, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Though I experienced symptoms for years, it wasn’t until I went a full year without getting a period that I realized I ...

Women often worry about weight gain when they start taking birth control pills. This worry usually comes from what they have ...

Birth control is a very personal decision, and identifying the method that works best for an individual can require some experimentation. That is best done when a doctor, not social media influencers, ...