“Are you on your period?” my grandmother regularly asked during my visits to Nepal as a teenager. She wanted to know because I would be “unclean” if I was menstruating. I felt a mix of guilt and ...

A new study says women perform better — and have faster response times — when they are menstruating FG Trade/Getty Women are better athletes when they’re menstruating, showing sharper response times ...

Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo surveyed women who do not menstruate, whether due to perimenopause, menopause, or use of hormonal contraception, who developed vaginal ...

Is it true that girls in the United States, particularly girls of color, are getting their periods earlier than past generations? A new study of 71,341 women supports the growing concern that the age ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is responding to critics who mocked her for using the phrase “menstruating person.” In a tweet on Wednesday night, the New York Congresswoman shared a screenshot ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said not only women menstruate, but also trans men and nonbinary people, responding to an earlier comment she made referring to “menstruating people.” “Trans men & ...

There's a photo making the rounds on Facebook right now that compares the size of a normal uterus to that of a menstruating uterus, and women are going wild for it. The photo comes from the account ...

About 8–12% of couples of reproductive age suffer from infertility, and roughly 15% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. The underlying mechanisms of human pregnancy are still poorly understood. In ...