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Women's health blogs
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    The untapped women's health market hiding in plain sight

    By Lisa Taylor, Founder of Wicks Intimates | 

    How listening to customers revealed an underserved women's health need.

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    Community is an evidence infrastructure

    By Voni Nyamazana | 

    We tend to treat community as women's health's support act. But long before a study is funded, women are already spotting the patterns science hasn't caught up with. Community isn't where the evidence gets discussed. It's where it begins.

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    Anal cancer in women: Let’s talk about it

    By Dr Matt Marino | 

    To the surprise of many clinicians, women make up the single largest group of people diagnosed with anal cancer. Yet it sits almost entirely outside the women's health conversation. Here's what every woman should know about the risk, the HPV link, and when screening is worth discussing.

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    The mind/body connection: Why what's happening in your head is happening in your body too

    By Lauren Cummings | 

    If sex feels like obligation, your body is already listening. Why the mind-body connection drives women's arousal, and how feeling safe changes everything.

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    Experiencing both sides of the stethoscope

    By Dr Liz Murray BCA, MBBS, DipMedSci | 

    A doctor who spent years undiagnosed with endometriosis reflects on navigating a healthcare system that repeatedly dismissed her symptoms, even as she worked within it.

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    Perimenopause: What you were never told

    By Mardi Lucich | 

    Most women were told one thing about menopause, that it starts when their periods stop. What they weren't told is that perimenopause, the multi-year hormonal transition that precedes it, can begin a decade earlier and reshapes brain function, bone density, metabolism, and cardiovascular health

  • Featured image for Midlife desire – Where did my sexual self go?
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    Midlife desire – Where did my sexual self go?

    By Dr Nadia Boscaglia | 

    Nearly half of midlife women report sexually related personal distress. A clinical psychologist and somatic sexologist unpacks the real picture: the hormonal, psychological, and relational factors driving low desire at midlife, and what it actually means for how you approach it.

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    When she’s not "just stressed": Perimenopausal mental health conditions

    By Dr Nadia Boscaglia | 

    Perimenopause gets talked about in terms of hot flushes and disrupted sleep, but for many women, the mental health toll is far heavier.

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    Pelvic health for active women: what every runner and lifter should know

    By Zainab (Zain) Oher | 

    If you've ever quietly wondered whether a little leakage during a run is 'just normal,' or why your lower back pain keeps coming back despite consistent training, you're not alone. Pelvic floor dysfunction affects a significant number of active women. The good news is, it's treatable.

  • Featured image for Get cliterate! This is how your clitoris works
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    Get cliterate! This is how your clitoris works

    By Dr Suzanne Belton PhD | 

    You have a clitoris. Great, it’s not a button for a start! The clitoris is part of female genitals whose primary function is sexual pleasure. When it is stimulated, it can lead to orgasm but that doesn’t mean pleasure is only physical or limited to one area. Your thoughts, emotions, context, and sense of safety all play a role too.

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