The cortisol pattern that gets missed most often Cortisol follows a curve. It peaks sharply in the first hour after waking, ...

The Trump administration has maintained without evidence for years that providing gender-affirming care for trans youth is harmful to kids.

A southern state that banned medical gender transition for children is funding a network of doctors and therapists who ...

Whether biological men who claim to identify as women should play in girls sports is a matter of opinion. That individuals ...

For years doctors advised women against hormone therapy for women in the menopausal transition. Now everyone's talking about ...

In the animal kingdom, only those that adapt to their environment survive. This adaptation takes a wide range of forms, from ...

No supplement can stop perimenopause. But understanding these changes—and giving your body targeted nutritional support—may help you feel stronger, think more clearly, sleep better, and navigate this ...

Female hormone levels change enormously during the monthly cycle. But those changes have almost no effect on how well women’s muscles respond to weight training, a new study finds. Scientists used ...

Menopause. Suddenly, the topic is everywhere in the headlines, in our news feeds, on podcasts. Until recently, this normal life stage marking the end of a woman’s reproductive years was only discussed ...

Weighing the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy? Better bone health is one potential benefit you shouldn’t overlook, experts say. In a recent study, women who used menopausal hormonal ...

Researchers evaluated racial differences in the uptake and use of hormone replacement therapy among more than 1.8 million patients with menopause. Racial minority groups, including Black and Asian ...