Judy Foreman Author & Journalist

Do men and women handle stress differently? Or, to put it more provocatively, do women have a built-in hormonal advantage when it comes to dealing with chronic stress? That’s the (highly loaded) question at the heart of a fascinating body of research that’s got the Net humming, with enthusiastic emails flying from woman to woman….

Let those biostatisticians slug it out down at the National Cancer Institute – I’m getting my yearly mammograms anyway.  Then again, the way things are going, should I? Last week, the latest panel of experts took a crack at sorting out the decades-old mess about mammograms: Do these X-rays really save lives? Or do they just…

Okay, it’s Pop Quiz time: What syndrome affects at least 5 million American women, yet is believed to be vastly under-diagnosed, despite its rather startling symptoms: excessive facial hair, acne, high male hormone levels, irregular periods, infertility, significant weight gain and a strong tendency to become diabetic? If you answered “polycystic ovarian syndrome” (or PCOS),…

You’re 39 weeks pregnant, not quite full-term. You’re still working, of course – after all, you’re a modern mom – and you’ve got everything under control. Except the obvious. If you knew exactly when the baby was coming, you could tell your boss when to start the maternity leave clock ticking. You could tell your mother when…

So, there it sits on the desktop, this ridiculous, ever-growing collection of moisturizers, seemingly endless bottles and stand-up tubes that rise like little mountain peaks amid the stacks of floppy disks and piles of papers. There’s the tall squirt bottle of Keri lotion, billed as “moisture-rich therapy,” which might be true, judging by the way…

The time has come to do the obvious about the whole abortion mess: Provide emergency “morning-after” contraception over the counter. Right now. In every state. In every pharmacy. For every woman who needs it. And at a reasonable price. One way you can tell the time has come is that the American Medical Association, not…

Until seven years ago, when she was 40, Nancy Nangeroni lived as a man, which was not all that surprising, given that she was born, as she puts it, with standard male plumbing. Unlike many transgendered people, who feel they are male but trapped in a female body or female stuck with male anatomy, Nangeroni…