(S. Behring/ Healthline) — Until recently, the medical community didn’t have data on breast cancer rates in the transgender community. Transgender people have historically faced large amounts of discrimination, and data often wasn’t taken or recorded appropriately.
Discrimination and barriers to care still exist …
(Heather Newgen/ Eat This, Not That) — We all live busy lives juggling careers, school, family and friends, but taking care of ourselves should be the top priority because without good health, we won’t have very productive lives.
After 40 our bodies start to change–we lose muscle mass, our metabolism slows down and …
(Bill Graveland/ Global News) — Andre Lavoie knew almost immediately that he was suffering a stroke.
The 60-year-old from Calgary was helping his wife put away groceries in 2015 when he dropped a can onto the floor.
“I bent to pick it up with my left arm and… nothing. I could not pick it up,” Lavoie said in an interview with …
(Solarina Ho/ CTV News) — Canadians living in southern and coastal parts of the country are at higher risk of developing a deadly form of skin cancer, according to a new study led by McGill University, which also found that rates of this type of cancer are rising in Canada.
The population-based study, published on Monday in …
(Rachael Link/ Healthline) — Keratin is a type of structural protein found in your hair, skin, and nails.
It’s especially important for maintaining the structure of your skin, supporting wound healing, and keeping your hair and nails healthy and strong.
Keratin supplements are often said to help prevent hair loss, increase …
(Pallabi Munsi/ Tucson) — Women are not a monolith, their experiences of menopause are not all negative, and this stage of life should not be medicalized, argue an international group of experts.
In an analysis piece published in the British Medical Journal on Wednesday, obstetrician Martha Hickey of the
(Harvard University School of Public Health) — Higher levels of optimism were associated with longer lifespan and living beyond age 90 in women across racial and ethnic groups in a study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
“Although optimism itself may be affected by social structural …
(The Canadian News) — Quebec announced Wednesday that it has facilitated access to hormone therapy in the general drug insurance plan to treat the symptoms of menopause.
Easy access to two bio-identical hormones, estradiol-17B in the form of a topical gel and micronized progesterone, covered by the Régie de l’assurance …
(Harvard Health) — Millions of women experience pain before, during, or after sexual intercourse—a condition called dyspareunia (from the Greek dyspareunos, meaning “badly mated”). This condition not only saps sexual desire and enjoyment, it can also strain relationships and erode quality of life in …
(Nathalie Rhone/ Healthline) — When we pack our diet with vibrant foods loaded with antioxidants, healthy fats, water, and essential nutrients, our body will show its appreciation through its largest organ: our skin.
After all, the skin is often the first part of our body to show internal trouble, and there’s only so much …