Hosai Ismail Khan is the pseudonym of a female journalist in Afghanistan who has written Sonia’s story using her own words; ...

Lost in the cobwebs of life were all the empty Passover holidays over the past 40 years where my daughter’s seat at the Seder stood empty. I recalled the warmth we once shared and how she pleaded to ...

I can’t help but wonder what the long-term consequences are to a society that suppresses our empathy and humanity in the name of self care?

Women now make up a majority of residents and fellows for the first time in history, but this growth is not being translated into the field of surgery. I was recently invited to give a keynote address ...

On his very first day in office, President Donald Trump fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman in American history to lead a branch of the armed forces. She was evicted from her residence with ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–Breast milk is the most local of all foods and one that can have an outsized impact on the health of mothers and infants. However, for many African American parents finding a maternity ...

Decades of neglect have left clinicians and researchers with an incomplete understanding of the unique features and risk factors that drive cardiovascular disease in women, including FMD. For women ...

HILLSDALE, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)–Some of the most famous TED Talks are from recognizable names — Monica Lewinsky, Elizabeth Gilbert, Al Gore – but others are from girls like Caitlin Haacke and Sophie ...

Bennett calls the Taliban’s edicts against women including the “absolute erasure” of them from public life to be “irrational.” Eight months after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, Richard ...