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A March 8 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a shirtless man standing in front of a backyard grill. “Everything that you eat in meat products is a female,” he says. “That means you’re ...

Brain cells (magenta) in the reward center of a rat’s brain release dopamine in response to opioids. According to a new study by WashU Medicine researchers, male and female rats with a chronic pain ...

Women’s reproductive rights in the U.S. are narrowing. Meanwhile, 46% of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended, pointing to the stark evidence of the enduring need for access to effective, ...

Scientists from UC San Francisco have discovered the female hormones estrogen and progesterone can suppress pain by making cells that produce pain-relieving opioids. This process helps block pain ...

The opioid epidemic has claimed more than half a million lives in the U.S. since 1999, about three-quarters of them men, according to the National Institutes of Health. Although men's disproportionate ...

“Women are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny.” With those words, Kristin Scott Thomas’s character in the TV show Fleabag nailed a truth: that to be female is to be over-represented in ...

Alzheimer's disease disproportionately affects women, who represent about two-thirds of those diagnosed with the late-onset type of the disease. Previous research has shown Alzheimer's is also more ...

Emerging evidence suggests there may be a critical window for estrogen therapy to protect against cognitive decline later in ...