Urinary tract infections: why women get them more, and what may help prevent recurrences
The anatomy is the starting point. The prevention advice varies far more in quality, and a few habits have real support behind them.
Women
Women collects reporting on conditions that present, progress or get treated differently in female patients: cardiac symptoms missed at triage, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, thyroid disorders and migraine. Each article states what research exists, how many women were studied, and where the evidence remains too thin to settle a decision.
Conditions that present or progress differently in female patients, from cardiac symptoms to autoimmune disease, with the size of the evidence base stated.
Heavy periods and low iron: what actually happens in the body
Anxiety and depression in women: what the numbers show
Women are diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorders at roughly twice the rate of men, and US screening guidelines changed in 2023 accordingly.
What causes hair loss in women
Female hair loss has several distinct causes — pattern thinning, shedding after a stressor, and medical conditions — and each follows a different path.
Why heart attack symptoms differ in women
Women are more likely than men to have heart attacks without crushing chest pain, and the American Heart Association says that difference costs diagnosis time.
How women's sleep differs from men's, and why it matters
Women are about 40 percent more likely than men to have insomnia, and sleep problems shift with each hormonal life stage from menstruation to menopause.