by Women's Health | Feb 12, 2018 | Health
Public bathrooms are generally considered to be pretty disgusting—but we bet you thought the hand dryers were the least of your problems. Well, Nichole Ward took it upon herself to perform a little experiment: She stuck a petri dish in the open plate of a hand dryer...
by Women's Health | Feb 12, 2018 | Health
Gigi Hadid put her body-shamers to, well, shame on Sunday in a series of tweets addressing speculation about her weight. “For those of you so determined to come up w why my body has changed over the years, you may not know that when I started @ 17 I was not yet...
by Women's Health | Feb 9, 2018 | Health
Mittelschmerz is a weird word for a not-so-weird phenomenon. In fact, it’s so common that about one in five women experience it on a monthly basis, says Dr. Nicole Scott, a gynae at IU Health. So what is it? Technically the word is German for “middle...
by Women's Health | Feb 7, 2018 | Health
There are some things you just know will send you to the bathroom — too much cheese, a spicy meal, that iffy pasta salad in the back of the fridge. But, if you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (women are twice as likely as men to have IBS, per the American College...
by Women's Health | Feb 5, 2018 | Health
Around 10 percent of South Africans suffer from a lack of iron and take iron supplements for it, but you can also suffer from too much iron, a condition called haemochromotosis. Here, Kirsti Lyall, a woman who lives with it, shares her story… The First Sign That...
