Mel B on menopause, the Spice Girls and why sleep finally won

The Spice Girls icon is opening up about anxiety, sleepless nights, beauty rituals and why the most important transformation of her life has nothing to do with the stage. The topics that come up when the Spice Girls get together have changed. World tours and album campaigns have given way to something more personal,…

ByGesi LloydApril 30, 20260Comments

Health

Why delaying HRT may be robbing women of better health

For decades, hormone replacement therapy carried a reputation that kept many women away from it entirely. Safety warnings, concerns about cancer risks and lingering anxiety from older research made HRT one of the most debated treatments in women's medicine. But that picture is shifting and a new large-scale study is offering some of the clearest…

ByDorcas OnasaApril 30, 20260Comments

Body

The real reason your body odor changes after 40

If you've noticed a change in your body odor during perimenopause or menopause and wondered whether it's all in your head, it likely isn't. Hormonal changes have long been known to influence how we smell just think back to adolescence when puberty suddenly made deodorant a daily necessity. The same principle applies during menopause, though…

ByDorcas OnasaApril 29, 20260Comments

Skincare

Adult acne: the real causes and how to properly treat it

Acne is widely thought of as a teenage rite of passage something that fades with age and clears up somewhere around graduation. But for a large number of adults, breakouts do not stop after adolescence. They shift, evolve and in many cases become harder to manage than they ever were in high school. Unlike acne…

ByDorcas OnasaApril 29, 20260Comments

Health

Endometriosis diagnosis delay: 5 reasons it takes so long

Endometriosis affects roughly 1 in 10 women worldwide. It causes chronic pain, disrupts daily life, and in many cases, quietly worsens over time. And yet, the average time between a woman's first symptoms and a confirmed diagnosis is somewhere between 8 and 12 years. That is not a rounding error it is a systemic failure…

ByDorcas OnasaApril 26, 20260Comments

Body

Menstruation is finally getting the open conversation it always deserved

A cultural reckoning around period stigma is quietly reshaping how women talk about their cycles, seek care, and relate to their own bodies across every stage of reproductive life. For most of recorded history, menstruation was treated as something to be managed privately, quietly, and without complaint. The cultural messaging around Menstruation, absorbed early…

ByGesi LloydApril 26, 20260Comments

Celebs

Tina Knowles opens up about her cancer recovery

Tina Knowles has never been one to leave a story half told. The 72 year old businesswoman, fashion designer and author is giving readers more of her truth in the paperback edition of her memoir, Matriarch and the reason why is deeply personal. Speaking at the 2026 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC…

ByDorcas OnasaApril 24, 20260Comments

Lifestyle

How Sobriety at 30 taught her that the fun was never in the bottle

She was not planning to quit drinking. The decision towards sobriety came sideways, through a new medication prescribed for her obsessive-compulsive disorder that did not mix well with alcohol. So she stopped. And then she waited for her social life to collapse. It did not. That was the first surprise. Two years into her sobriety…

ByGesi LloydApril 23, 20260Comments

Hair

Why 35% of women in their 30s are losing hair fast

Losing a few strands throughout the day is completely normal. Most people shed between 50 and 100 hairs daily without noticing, largely because new hair grows back at roughly the same rate. But when that regrowth slows down or stops altogether something else may be going on beneath the surface. According to new data from…

ByDorcas OnasaApril 22, 20260Comments

TV & Movies

The Pitt exposes what emergency rooms get wrong about women

When a 46-year-old woman arrives at a Pittsburgh emergency room with no cardiac history and leaves nearly dead, The Pitt is not just telling a story. It is documenting something that happens every day across the country. The HBO Max series, now in its second season, has drawn attention for its unflinching portrayal of emergency medicine.…