Navigating puberty with your daughter is a pivotal journey for both parent and child. Among its significant milestones, explaining the arrival of her first period stands as a crucial and sensitive ...

For many of us growing up in the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s (or earlier), periods and menstruation were kind of a taboo topic (especially for boys). But this completely normal bodily process deserves to be ...

A mom shares why she's transparent about menstruation with her kids. (Photo: Getty) My daughter was 2 and a half the first time she followed me into the bathroom when I was menstruating. It was my ...

For 4-5 days at the end of each ovarian cycle, a woman sheds almost a fluid ounce of blood. Blood loss during menstruation (Latin mens = month) — dubbed “the curse” in England — amounts to almost a ...

Many students walking through Frist Campus Center on Friday, Nov. 30 paused when they saw cupcakes decorated with labia and chocolate covered pretzels designed to look like bloody tampons. The ...

Puberty often begins early for children who are obese. While there is nothing new about this fact, a scientific explanation has been elusive. Now, a team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen ...

It is also important to note that menstruation resembling that in higher primates is exceedingly rare among other mammals. True menstruation has been reliably demonstrated only for a few bat species ...