womens health
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How Your Partner’s Birth Control Can Affect Your Sex Life (And What to Do About It)
Birth control is unique among medical interventions, not least of all because its name straight-up tells you what it does — it controls birth by preventing pregnancy. Beyond that, though, there are a lot of other things birth control can do. Some are great: Hormonal birth control can clear skin and make periods or endometriosis…
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Listen to Meghan Markle – Miscarriage Isn’t Uncommon, We Just Don’t Talk About It
Meghan Markle has penned a moving essay on pregnancy loss. It has highlighted just how common miscarriage is, and how little we discuss it.
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Should You Get Your Vaginal Microbiome Analysed?
The bacteria and other microbes that live in the vagina are hugely important to our health, but (like the microbes in other parts of the body) they’re not very well understood. Now, a company is offering free vaginal microbiome reports to women who join their study.
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Everything You Think You Know About Toxic Shock Syndrome Is Probably Wrong
A couple of years ago, I learned that some women insert makeup sponges in their vaginas, all the way up to the cervix, in order to have mess-free period sex. After some googling and consulting with women who’d done it, I decided to give it a try. It was a revelation — suddenly oral sex…