Medical interventions have their place. But simpler, healthier birthing options abound — and they’re becoming more popular. Want to make your pregnancy and labor as safe and empowering as possible? Consider your choices, including the birthing partners, plans, and environments that suit you best.
From the biological basis for attraction to the underpinnings of head-turning good looks — an exploration into the compelling connections between vitality and sex appeal.
If you want a baby, take note: making one may require a more cultivated effort than you thought.
Think science news is just for nerds in white lab coats? Think again. Health-related scientific research has come a long way in the past decade or so. And it’s telling us astonishing things about our own bodies and minds. Collected here: Eight important insights that are changing the way we think about living well.
You want to stay fit, and you want your baby to be healthy. Here’s what’s known (and not yet known) about the potential risks and rewards of staying seriously active — and even competing — while you’re expecting.
If you use a hormonal method of birth control, you may gain weight. Then again, you may not. Your doctor can’t tell you. In fact, you could be the best expert on this weighty matter.
Meet your thyroid, a delicate little gland located at the front of your throat. It controls how every cell in your body turns food and oxygen into energy — and that can mean big trouble if your thyroid goes on the fritz.
Most men take their health — and their prostate — entirely for granted. Until things take a turn for the worse.