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March 14, 2024

It Might Not Be Too Late to Protect Yourself From Cervical Cancer

If you’re over the age of 40 and have never been vaccinated for HPV, it’s not too late for you to protect yourself against the most commonly contracted STD in the country.

March 7, 2024

Dating After Divorce Wasn’t What They Said It’d Be

It didn’t take long after I ended my 12-year marriage for me to get on Tinder. I’d met my ex-husband in high school; he was the third person I ever dated; and we’d been married since we were 22.

February 29, 2024

How I’m Handling My Aging Mother’s Clutter

I was 21 years old when I plotted to throw out as many bags of my mom’s belongings as I could while she was out of town for work. That was the summer of 2002.

February 22, 2024

When It Comes to Coming Out, It’s Never Too Late

Suzette Mullen knows what it’s like to start over. In her 50s, she came to realize she was a lesbian, a truth she’d turned away from for years

February 15, 2024

The Easy Habit Everyone Should Try

A few years ago, I started a new habit that became a family tradition. Throughout the year, I kept an ongoing list of my children’s accomplishments to read to them on January 1st of the following year.

February 8, 2024

The Internet’s Gynecologist Will See You Now

During peak pandemic times, Jen Gunter MD — otherwise known as the Internet’s gynecologist — started to notice a convergence of alarming trends.

February 1, 2024

A Youth-Culture Obsessive Explains Kids These Days

There are only a few newsletters I always open, and Casey Lewis’s After School – a daily download on what’s happening with young people these days – is one of them.

January 25, 2024

How to Embrace Big Birthdays

For many people, there’s real anxiety around “milestone” birthdays. They can be uncomfortable reminders about how our lives haven’t quite turned out as planned, or how we haven’t achieved everything we feel like we should have. and postmenopausal women when we think of the supplement. 

January 18, 2024

Why Aren’t More Women Taking This Supplement?

Creatine has been associated with male bodybuilders, athletes, and gym rats since it sprinted into the general public’s knowledge following the 1992 Summer Olympics. I think it’s safe to assume that we don’t think of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women when we think of the supplement. 

January 10, 2024

Astrologer Susan Miller on Career Longevity

Astrologer Susan Miller is on the mend. In late 2023, she suffered an eye infection that temporarily left her partially blind. “Macular degeneration. You're supposed to get it when you're 80. I got it at 35,” she says.

January 4, 2024

What You Should Know About ADHD and Age

I discovered the hard way just how much female sex hormones affect ADHD — like the I-went-to-five-different-doctors-before-anyone-told-me hard way. So let me tell you what I learned so you don't have to go through it too.

December 21, 2023

When Acne Torments You As An Adult

“Have you tried that soap I bought you?” my mother asks, expertly chopping a red onion while I roll my eyes behind her back. I’m a 34-year-old mother of three, and I’ve been battling a persistent case of adult acne for months.

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