With supermarkets selling lube, general stores dedicating aisles to vibrators, and fashion retailers advertising arousal oil, it’s natural to wonder when other sexual wellness products will be that ...

Symptoms of some autoimmune illnesses, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or MS, can sometimes seem to improve during pregnancy. But most don’t. Pregnancy also can affect different autoimmune diseases ...

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A birth control implant is a long-term and highly effective form of hormonal birth control. The implanted device slowly releases progestin, a synthetic version of the hormone your body releases during ...

Medically reviewed by Laura Young Both high- and low-dose birth control pills prevent pregnancy equally well.For some people, low-dose birth control may have fewer side effects, like headaches and ...

The birth control patch, also called the contraceptive patch, releases hormones to prevent pregnancy. A person can apply the patch to certain areas of clean, dry, hairless skin where tight clothing ...

With more than 400 million tags on TikTok and nearly 95,000 on Instagram, you’ve probably heard about cycle syncing, which refers to timing workouts to the phases of the menstrual cycle—menstruation, ...

LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. Hormonal birth control has always been the norm for many but as personalized wellness grows, researchers and clinicians have ...

Ovarian cancer is cancer in your ovaries, female reproductive glands that produce eggs and hormones. In the U.S., it causes more deaths each year than any other cancer that affects women's ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which stripped away the constitutional protection of abortion rights, some abortion-ban states and pro-life politicians have turned their attention ...

On April 3, 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user Ben Zeisloft, an editor at conservative publication The Sentinel, published a post that revived a hotly debated issue related to abortion (archived): The ...