The day before I discovered I was pregnant with my son, I’d shared nearly two bottles of red wine with a good friend. It was more than three glasses or six units; I’d thus been binge drinking. As the faint blue line of the white stick deepened in intensity, my mind raced back. Visions of midweek

Doctors treating a woman for stomach pain were shocked to find a very unlikely cause for it - a potato inside her vagina. The 22-year-old woman, from Colombia, was advised by her mother to use the technique to avoid becoming pregnant. But by the time doctors discovered the potato, it had apparently

Sure, we know remembering to take your birth control every day can be hard. But some recent headlines are saying that birth control pills actually alter women’s memory… Really? The short answer is that—in spite of the headlines—we still don’t know. Memory and hormones: Is there a connection? The

So you got sick. You eyed that fellow bus rider coughing into the open. You winced as your co-worker sneezed beside you in a meeting. You sank a little bit as your preschooler came home, nose oozing, and stuck his fingers in your face. It seemed only a matter of time before you faced that familiar

When I was a teenager in the early 90s, there was a definite trend adopted by a specific type of hippy student I dated, who told themselves and those around them that hair was "self-cleaning". For weeks, even months, they would refuse shampoo, resulting in hair that emitted cheap cider and bong