women's health

The trick of a truly amazing lime soup is to use fresh lime juice and add it right at the end to preserve its incredible flavour.

When the book Our Bodies, Ourselves was originally released, things were very different for women's health.

Since the disease is the leading cause of cancer death in women under 50, a diagnosis can be particularly hard to swallow for younger women.

Pregnancy is an exciting time in a woman's life, but it can also be a nerve-wracking one. All of a sudden you're focused not just on your health, but on that of your baby as well — and at a time when you're dealing with new body changes and a lot of unknowns.

So, several months ago I thought I might be pregnant. After 20 years of reliably timely and heavy periods — without even one other genuine scare — I was suddenly a week late. After a couple of days of panicky phone calls to my best gals and Googling "early pregnancy symptoms" while trying to determine whether I was experiencing "implantation cramps," I finally made an appointment at a women's health clinic to get a blood test and put an end to all of the highly stressful guesswork.