"Why does menstruation come every month?" "Why do menstrual cramps happen?" "Is it okay to leave irregular periods alone?" If ...

Most parents today would agree that they want their daughters to feel positively about their bodies and to be happy with their sexuality and their body functions. Most women remember, fairly vividly, ...

Periods. Although most young women get their period every month, there’s still a lot to learn about menstruation and how our bodies function during the four phases of the menstrual cycle. So we ...

Whichever way you look at it, menstruation is still a taboo—and that taboo is affecting women’s lives. Many women have to hide their pads and tampons (should someone—shock, horror!—realize that they ...

Understanding Karwa Chauth The Karwa Chauth fast is celebrated on the *Chaturthi Tithi* (fourth day) of the *Krishna Paksha* ...

Menstruation can stop due to excessive exercise or extreme weight loss. The 2017 clinical guidelines from the Endocrine ...

Donald Trump did the girls and women living in the developing world a great favor this week. He got menstruation – the taboo of all taboo words in polite society – onto the front page of the Sunday ...

Pliny the Elder had some interesting ideas about menstruation. He wrote that period blood has several “monstrous effects,” including ruining crops, spoiling new wine, causing gardens to shrivel, and ...

The Middle Ages scientific authority Pliny the Elder wrote 2,000 years ago that hailstorms, whirlwinds and lightning could be “scared away” by a woman “uncovering her body while her monthly courses ...