Research

Tampons could help doctors detect early-stage ovarian cancer, a new study suggests.

Women who go up a few dress sizes after their mid-20’s have a greater risk developing breast cancer after menopause, say researchers at University College London. While obesity has long been considered a risk factor for cancer, British researchers have found that a woman’s thickening waist line between the ages of 20 and 64 actually […]

A new study from a British vitamin brand claims that the average woman spends roughly 10 days a year in a "grumpy" mood.

Sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder are more likely to develop an addiction to food.

A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that the death rate for males is 1.5 times as high as the rate for females.

Women might be able to use drug-delivering tampons to protect themselves from HIV.

The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that women, on average, are better than the opposite sex at episodic memory (the memory of autobiographical events). Agneta Herlitz, the co-author of the study and a psychologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and her colleagues surveyed 30,000 individuals across 13 European countries. The […]

A new protein can trigger labour after about 40 weeks of pregnancy.

Researchers at Charles Sturt University found that lonely women were more likely to spend a greater amount of time on social networking sites and have less privacy settings in place so everyone online can view their profiles. The study, “Self-disclosure on Facebook among female users and its relationship to feelings of loneliness”, collected data from […]

Diarrhoea among our aging population is costing the national health system $75 million a year, according to a new scientific study.