The state of Florida is looking into requiring high school girls who play sports to tell the school about their menstrual cycles. Dr. Tommy Shechtman is a pediatrician and past president of the ...

Girls are getting their periods earlier and it is taking longer for their menstrual cycles to regulate – trends that are putting more girls at risk of health problems later in life. The average age of ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida High School Athletic Association has changed a draft rule that would have required high school girls to disclose information about their menstrual cycles, according to ...

As a teenager, I was caught completely off guard the day I discovered blood in my underwear. My first thought wasn’t, “I’ve started my period,” but rather, “Did I somehow injure myself?” I remember ...

“I wasn’t shy from the first time,” says Genet Birhanu of her job as a menstrual educator in Ethiopia. “I understand menstruation cycle is an old taboo,” she says, but “I’m not afraid” to talk about ...

The COVID-19 booster was linked to shorter menstrual cycles in adolescent girls in the 4 months following administration, particularly when teens were in their follicular phase. The vaccine did not ...

The Florida High School Athletic Association’s 16-member Board of Directors is expected to vote later this month on whether student athletes should be required to submit information about their ...

A BYU research study has found that the menstrual cycle has no effect on exercise for eumenorrheic women, women with regular periods not marked by abnormal pain, according to preliminary reports. BYU ...

Meet the three sisters who are helping women — and their partners — better understand the four phases of the menstrual cycle Carly Beyar Zolga didn't have a period for 8 months after she stopped ...

Editor’s Note: Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, is the deputy dean at the School of Public Health at Brown University and a professor of emergency medicine at the University’s Warren Alpert Medical School. The ...