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If raising your arm above or behind your head triggers a stabbing or shocklike pain in your shoulder area, you could have rotator cuff tendinitis. “The pain worsens with activity and could even wake you from sleep,” says William Levine, MD, director of the sports medicine department of orthopedic surgery ...

As if bloating, achiness, and irritability weren’t enough, your monthly period has another way of making you feel lousy: It can actually exacerbate certain chronic health issues. The phenomenon is called premenstrual magnification, or PMM, and is characterized by preperiod flare-ups of conditions that are sensitive to hormonal fluctuations—everything from ...

Let’s get this out of the way: Freezing your eggs will be a serious drain on your bank account. While a few employers, Facebook and Apple among them, are starting to help cover the bill, it’s still a steep buy-in for most women. But with the egg-freezing process becoming more ...

Women may be at greater risk for stroke, heart disease and diabetes during perimenopause, the years leading up to menopause, suggests a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The results differed from previous studies that suggested the risks, known as metabolic syndrome, were more likely ...

The night before I meet Connie and Samuel Johnson, I watch the Disney movie Frozen. If you haven’t seen it, the basic premise is that an act of true love can overcome anything. As I watch Connie, 37, and Sam, 36, at our shoot the next day, that’s stuck in ...

If there was a cure for a bad night’s sleep (no prescriptive sedatives, thanks!) we’re sure this would be the most popular product/treatment going around. Why? Because many of us just can’t.get.no.sleep. We’re putting it down to things like longer work hours, the influence of the digital world and increasing ...

“We were in the lounge room when we heard Mum scream. We ran into her bedroom and saw him beating her with a baseball bat. Mum was on the ground and he was on top of her, hitting her over and over. We tried to stop him but he swung ...

Researchers from Harvard University monitored more than 130,000 healthy women for a period of 10 years and found that over 6,000 women developed Type 2 diabetes. As part of the study, scientists looked at various sleep problems including difficulty falling or staying asleep, snoring, getting less than six hours sleep per ...

How? Because they’re rich in beta-carotene, a naturally occurring chemical found in brightly coloured foods like squash, spinach, peppers and kale. Beta-carotene is a health-boosting carotenoid that converts into the all-essential vitamin A to help protect our cells from damage and create antioxidants in the body. For the largest ever ...

In 1969, The Australian Women’s Weekly published a story about Nancy Richardson, under the headline “Real Fatty”. Nancy described the moment she realised she needed to lose weight. She was visiting her parents and noticed that her father was avoiding her. “Finally I asked what was wrong,” she told the ...