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There’s a kind of loneliness that doesn’t announce itself. It settles in quietly – between school pickups and work calls, in the middle of a full calendar, or after a divorce that no one in your social circle quite knows how to talk about. You can be surrounded by people and still feel it. You...
For decades, millions of women have sat in doctors’ offices clutching a diagnosis that felt incomplete, or received no diagnosis at all. They were told they had a condition named for something many of them never even had: cysts. A name written nearly a century ago, by two surgeons in Chicago who were peering at...
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As women get older, transitioning from our 20s into our 30s, then 40s, 50s, and beyond, our focus often shifts. We start thinking more about longevity, mobility, and, perhaps most importantly, the hidden framework that holds us up: our bones. For many women, the mention of bone health conjures images of calcium supplements and leisurely...
Two symptoms sit at the top of every gynecologic oncologist’s list when they talk about catching cancer before it becomes life-threatening: abnormal vaginal bleeding and changes in the breast. Both are primary early warning signs of cancer in women, and both are signals that women’s bodies send early enough to make a real difference –...
Only 2 years after giving birth to her son, Gunnar, at age 44, Staci Marklin received a diagnosis that would change her and her family’s lives forever. In October 2024, she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at 46 while living in Knoxville, Tennessee. To connect with others and challenge misconceptions about the disease, she began...
Turning 60 no longer comes with the mentality that it used to: slow down, stay at home, and be “too old” to do many things. For women today, this decade isn’t a signal to slow down, but rather one that is characterized by newfound freedom, wisdom, and the desire to live vibrantly. However, the biological...
Improving survival rates is dependent on early and accurate detection of breast cancer, which remains a major public health concern and one of the leading causes of death among women in the United Kingdom. Historically, this critical process has been dependent on the ability of human radiologists to interpret mammograms. A recent landmark study points...
Jennifer Aniston is 56 and in the best shape of her life, and the reason isn’t what you’d guess. It’s not a secret supplement or a celebrity trainer or some punishing two-hour gym session. It’s a 30-minute workout, done consistently, built around movements that protect her body instead of wearing it down. For most of...
Emotional withdrawal is one of the most common human behaviors and one of the most misunderstood, largely because we tend to lump all forms of going silent into the same category. You’ve probably been on one side of this or the other. Someone you care about suddenly stops talking, stops texting back, stops showing up...
