Should runners with a period track their menstrual cycles with the same attention to detail as HRV, nutritional intake, and sleep? Could period tracking really help athletes crack the code for a PR?

Period talk is still somewhat taboo, which can make it difficult for people to know whether or not they have a heavier than average flow. (Illustration: Katie Martin for Yahoo; Photo: Getty Images) ...

Women have had enough of wasteful and impractical feminine hygiene products. For generations, women were limited when it came to period products. Now, female-led businesses are developing new products ...

So much for menstruation cramping their style. Female athletes react quicker and make fewer errors on their period even as they believe their symptoms and lousy mood will negatively affect their ...

SEATTLE — That surge of anger and irritability many women experience before their periods doesn’t fade away as they approach menopause — it may actually intensify. A University of Washington study ...

Veronica Ewers said nothing, despite all the signs, despite the blood test results staring back at her, telling her the hormones in her body were barely present. Because the results came with an ...

Researchers are finally trying to understand the complex causes of menstrual pain, or dysmenorrhea—and potential solutions.

Being on your period may make you feel terrible, but new research suggests there’s a hidden and unexpected perk: It can make you smarter. That’s the main takeaway from a new study published in the ...

For three months this year, I bled nearly every day. My doctor doesn’t know why. Google doesn’t know why. The condition is simply called “postmenopausal bleeding,” and medicine’s best guess as to the ...

Let me first state that not all women have regular periods. If the gap between the start of your periods keeps changing, then you have irregular periods. You should see your Doctor if this happens.

It’s not easy to be a woman. While great strides have been made in matters of gender equality, society still favors men. It would seem that Mother Nature favors men, too, or at least understands that ...

Society tends to shove topics under the rug that seem “too scandalous.” However, by refusing to address certain matters, we’ve come to overlook the glaringly-obvious pandemic that’s occurring right ...