PEOPLE staff writer Alex Ross, 24, shares her story of living with endometriosis to raise awareness and help other young women with the disease find the answers they need Advertising Week by ...

On July 4, 2025, just over a month after my consultation, I underwent a laparoscopic procedure known as a bilateral salpingectomy to have both of my fallopian tubes removed. It was a simple day ...

I experience severe anxiety when I have to go to any type of doctor. Whether it is the dentist, the gynecologist, a primary care physician, a dermatologist, or an optometrist. It’s all the same ...

my gynecologist asked as I scooted back on the pelvic exam table, the crinkly white paper bunching up under my bare butt. I was recoiling at the sight of the cold speculum she was wielding, and my ...

I have a love-hate relationship with my hypothalamus, a region of the brain that helps control body temperature. Johns Hopkins Medicine says 75% of all women experience hot flashes in varying degrees, ...

Seventeen years ago, I stared up at the ceiling tiles of a colorless doctor’s office, with my legs spread and my feet in stirrups while the nurse practitioner examined the bump on my vagina. “Oh, it’s ...