Menstruation is part of human life, yet it is stigmatised and rarely discussed openly. This has far-reaching implications for health, poverty and gender inequity. It’s time for this to change. This ...

Menstruation is a completely natural and universal phenomenon, associated with normal female reproduction. However, it is surrounded by negative perceptions, and communication about it, when it occurs ...

Periods. Although most young women get their period every month, there’s still a lot to learn about menstruation and how our bodies function during the four phases of the menstrual cycle. So we ...

Guidelines for Fasting on Janmashtami While Menstruating Understanding the Janmashtami Fast: The festival of Krishna ...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has today launched ISO 45010 - Occupational health and safety management — Menstruation and menopause in the workplace — Guidance, the world's ...

Most parents today would agree that they want their daughters to feel positively about their bodies and to be happy with their sexuality and their body functions. Most women remember, fairly vividly, ...

Donald Trump did the girls and women living in the developing world a great favor this week. He got menstruation – the taboo of all taboo words in polite society – onto the front page of the Sunday ...

In a February golf tournament, after Tiger Woods hit his ball farther on the ninth tee than Justin Thomas, Woods handed Thomas a tampon. Get it? Thomas is weak! Haha. Contrast this with the viral ...

When Donald Trump said that Fox News host Megyn Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever," he showed that cultural taboos and biological misconceptions about female menstruation die hard. Trump ...

Aunt Flo. Crimson curse. The Red Baron. There are infinite euphemisms for menstruation, but in 2019, we've never needed them less. Public battles over tampon taxes and access to feminine hygiene ...