Are you still paying for your birth control? That might be illegal

The Obama administration has declared that health insurance companies must cover all contraception methods. Will this decision have an impact on you?

The high price of cheap manicures: what can consumers do?

Many salon workers are badly paid and risk their health to deliver cheap manicures. How can you avoid bring part of the problem?

West Texas school chlamydia outbreak may never have happened

State health officials tell the Guardian that they do not know where figure that 20 students had sexually transmitted infection came from

Research lags on the health risks of women’s exposure to chemicals

Women have been expanding their role in the workplace for decades, but gender studies on the impact of workplace chemicals have yet to catch up

How employers tracking your health can cross the line and become Big Brother

Even before Fitbit wristbands and the Apple Watch, measures that companies took to prod their workers to get and stay healthy were controversial

For the youngest and oldest, air pollution may have serious health consequences

The effect of air pollution on climate change is well-documented, but two new studies show that it may also pose surprising dangers to public health

Women still do most of the cleaning: is it putting their health at risk?

A California proposal to label all ingredients in cleaning products draws fire from manufacturers and support from women’s health advocates

The medical research gender gap: how excluding women from clinical trials is hurting our health

When it comes to health research, large gender gaps limit how much we know about the difference between women’s health and men’s

Not so pretty: women apply an average of 168 chemicals every day

On average, women use twice as many personal care products as men, applying far more chemicals to their bodies. What’s the impact on their health?

What I learned when I attended my son’s ‘abstinence-based’ sex ed class

I never thought the class, which centered on shame-and-fear-based teachings, was going to be so awful, or that my tweets about it would be read by thousands of people