Many women quietly worry when their libido fades or fluctuates. When desire doesn’t appear easily or consistently, it’s easy to assume something must be wrong. But female sexual desire was never meant to be constant or automatic. Research shows that desire is responsive — shaped by context, emotion, stress, and presence — and understanding this can be deeply liberating.

When should a woman start smear tests? Is it about age or lifestyle? Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Olivia Anne Cassar shares her views.

Canada-based scientist Liisa Galea has made it her mission to advocate for the need for more research into women’s health. Such research can help uncloud the menopause mystery, amongst other things.

We are all familiar with that experiment in which a Mentos is dropped into a bottle of cola - and the bottle rockets. If we imagine our body as the bottle and our hormones as the Mentos – then the chemical reaction can be explosive, emotionally speaking.

Miscarriage. Here is a word we grow up hearing thrown around every now and again. But the severity of what a woman and her partner are going through is only known to those who really experience the dark reality behind the word.

I often questioned: why am I a crier? Is it a gender thing fuelled by hormones? Is it culture? Research shows women cry more than men and there are various reasons explaining this phenomenon.