Featured series 
Tag: Women’s Health
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Arts & Culture
How fashion police have been walking beat for centuries
Houghton Library exhibit highlights the policing of women’s fashion since the 17th century.
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Health
How to reverse nation’s declining birth rate
Health experts urge policies that buoy families: lower living costs, affordable childcare, help for older parents who want more kids
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Health
For some, the heart attack is just the beginning
Harvard clinic uses mindfulness techniques to treat medically induced PTSD
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Health
Why are women twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as men?
Researchers focusing on chromosomes, menopause
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Health
Cuts imperil ‘keys to future health’
Project has tracked lives, lifestyles, and well-being of cohorts over decades, led to insights, interventions in cardiovascular disease, cancers, nutrition
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Health
U.S. pregnancy-related deaths continuing to rise
Study researcher says nation, which leads high-income peers in maternal mortality, needs better prenatal, extended postpartum care
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Campus & Community
Providing medical care is important, but so is ensuring access
Morgan Byers grew up in a small Georgia community with big ideas of how to help
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Health
Eating citrus may lower depression risk
Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding
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Nation & World
Need to boost population? Encourage dads to step up at home.
New historical research by economist Claudia Goldin finds link between fertility rates, gender roles
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Health
Study pinpoints optimal timing for RSV vaccine during pregnancy
Five weeks before giving birth best transfers maternal antibodies to the fetus, say researchers
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Nation & World
U.S. fertility rates are tumbling, but some families still go big. Why?
It’s partly matter of faith. Economist examines choice to have large families in new book.
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Health
Warning for younger women: Be vigilant on breast cancer risk
Pathologist explains the latest report from the American Cancer Society
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Health
‘Heartbreaking’ encounter inspired long view on alcohol
One encounter changed everything for researcher who hopes to help mothers and families detect and treat the effects of dangerous drinking
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Health
Suicide among female doctors gets a closer look
Epidemiologist discusses research, shrinking gap between rates of male, female physicians, what can be done
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Health
Loving your pup may be a many splendored thing
New research suggests having connection to your dog may lower depression, anxiety
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Health
Does your brain reflect your sex?
Precision medicine is just one field where the answer matters
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Work & Economy
More money, empowerment — and less chance of domestic abuse
Study examines benefits for working women who help produce Rwandan specialty coffee
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Health
Women rarely die from heart problems, right? Ask Paula.
New book traces how medical establishment’s sexism, focus on men over centuries continues to endanger women’s health, lives
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Health
Asking the internet about birth control
Only a fraction of it will come from an expert, researchers say
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Health
Study of 4.3M pregnant women clarifies safety of antiseizure meds
Using 20 years of data, prenatal exposure to topiramate may not increase children’s risk of autism spectrum disorder
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Health
Menopause depression risk has been exaggerated
Some groups are more vulnerable but symptoms far from universal, review finds
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Health
Do high-stress jobs put pregnancy at risk?
Study compared outcomes for expecting doctors, lawyers. One group fared worse.
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Campus & Community
Your period started. Of course the tampon dispenser is empty.
All-too-familiar frustration for women sparked campaign to make menstrual products in campus bathrooms as basic an expectation as toilet paper.
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Health
When to get first mammogram? Doctor explains latest advice.
Guidance shifts amid troubling breast cancer trends in young and Black women.
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Health
Optimism lengthens life, study finds
Women who reported a positive outlook were likelier to live past 90, regardless of race or ethnicity.
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Health
How power of positive thinking works
A Harvard study shows that although an optimistic outlook may help women live longer, one other possibility is that higher optimism directly impacts our biological systems.
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Campus & Community
Looking indoors to health
Harvard’s University Construction Management Council is celebrating its 10th year and forging ahead on projects such as acting to remove flame retardants and other toxic chemicals from building interiors.
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Health
Worldwide, women’s inequality
A U.N. official said Thursday that the world has made progress in reducing poverty and in meeting some of its eight Millennium Development Goals, but that entrenched inequality of women will slow efforts to meet equality and maternal mortality targets by 2015.
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Health
Berries keep your brain sharp
A new study by Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) finds that a high intake of flavonoid-rich berries, such as strawberries and blueberries, over time, can delay memory decline in older women by two and a half years.
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Nation & World
Botswana: One Woman’s Story
Though there are signs that the Botswana AIDS epidemic is slowing, the disease remains the top cause of death in the southern African nation. HIV infection rates are down nationwide to 24 percent, while life expectancy, which had fallen from 64 in 1990 to 40, rose to 50 in 1997.