Health Trends

Welcome to Press Pause. This January, we’re asking: What does self-care look like when it’s not all or nothing? What if we simply pressed pause here

When Jack, a 35-year-old working in tech who asked us not to use his last name, walked into a party recently in Los Angeles, instead of a makeshift bar wit

Thanks to our brains and our reflexes, a lot of us don’t have to think twice about breathing. It’s a relatively unnoticeable, usually monotonous, invol

“Am I going to die early?” I say out loud for the first time in my life. I’m not in a doctor’s office or a hospital — I’m on Zoom with a scient

The first time I came across the word ‘vajacial’, I thought I was hallucinating or delusional or both. But no, it turns out that getting a faci

When my mother found out I had penetrative sex for the first time, I was grounded for two weeks. I was 15 and my father was sure I’d been raped. Desp

An “off” button for menstrual cramps seems like something we’d be sold in a Netflix reimagining of The Jetsons, where a teenage Judy Jetson simply ta

At this very moment, the moon is a waning crescent. Sure, it’s not as mysterious as a new moon or inspiring as a full moon, but that doesn’t me

Ten years ago, the world looked a little different. Barack Obama was president, One Direction was still together (RIP), Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit single “