women's health

A new study reveals that basic health care, both in prison and on release, is essential to ensure successful reintegration into society

Overall, Canadian women are 13 per cent less likely to die from cancer now than two decades ago—but fatality rates for some types, like lung cancer, remain the same

The “wellness” industry boom has stirred much debate, but Anne Kingston argues that the real problem to address is the ongoing medical gender gap that is leaving women frustrated.

Modified in the lab, the Indian curry spice curcumin ‘may be better than a condom’

The new health-wealth paradox

Study shows women may eat more and gussy themselves up at certain times of the month

40 per cent would give incomplete advice

Long live the Men’s Centre

Dr. Aaron Caughey on labour and how epidurals changed childbirth

Signs of setbacks identified in the U.S.

Colby Cosh on how a study linking abortion and depression was grossly misinterpreted

The long-standing controversy over the link between therapeutic abortion and breast cancer found its way onto unexpected territory—the Globe and Mail website—on Friday. The pro-life movement has long been quarrying the epidemiological literature for the smoking gun of what it calls “ABC”. This is what pro-lifers ask Santa for Christmas, or wish for when they see a falling star: that abortion will turn out to carry previously unsuspected harms which might become the pretext for outlawing it completely, for imposing severe restrictions on it, or, at the very least, for stigmatizing it like tobacco and allowing clients to receive a scary mandatory lecture on cancer risk in the name of informed consent.