Rules for Observing the Janmashtami Fast During Menstruation: The festival of Krishna Janmashtami is celebrated on the ...

Menstruation is part of human life, yet it is stigmatised and rarely discussed openly. This has far-reaching implications for health, poverty and gender inequity. It’s time for this to change. This ...

Menstruation is a completely natural and universal phenomenon, associated with normal female reproduction. However, it is surrounded by negative perceptions, and communication about it, when it occurs ...

Periods. Although most young women get their period every month, there’s still a lot to learn about menstruation and how our bodies function during the four phases of the menstrual cycle. So we ...

Donald Trump did the girls and women living in the developing world a great favor this week. He got menstruation – the taboo of all taboo words in polite society – onto the front page of the Sunday ...

HISTORY OFFERS no shortage of unhinged takes on menstruation. In 77AD, Pliny the Elder claimed that contact with menstrual blood would turn crops barren and drive dogs mad. A medieval medical text ...

In a February golf tournament, after Tiger Woods hit his ball farther on the ninth tee than Justin Thomas, Woods handed Thomas a tampon. Get it? Thomas is weak! Haha. Contrast this with the viral ...

When Donald Trump said that Fox News host Megyn Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever," he showed that cultural taboos and biological misconceptions about female menstruation die hard. Trump ...