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Gender expectations add to women’s stress levels.

Community groups in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, DC, will produce needed research and data.

Gender differences and HIV

The stigma Black ballerinas experience mirrors body image issues faced by other women and girls of color.

Smoking behaviors do not explain this new finding.

Food cravings in men versus women

Dorothy Horton, PsyD, answers your questions in her latest Ask Doctor Dee column.

Females who go under the knife to pare off pounds see a boost to cardiac health compared with males who opt for the same surgery.

A group of medical experts are now calling for a change of the international guidelines governing type 2 diabetes treatment.

A new pay survey among U.S. doctors has uncovered a major gender divide between who gets paid the most in the health care industry.

Here’s one big reason African Americans continue to face health care disparities.

If passed, the law would officially fast-track studies looking into how diseases and treatments affect men and women differently.

An HHS review board ruled in favor of Denee Mallon, a 74-year-old transgender Army veteran from New Mexico.

HIV-positive women, nonwhites and people residing in the Southern United States had poorer health than HIV-positive men, whites and people res...

HIV treatment-experienced women and African Americans had greater improvements in quality of life than men, whites or Latinos after switching...

Years of life experiences often boost our self-confidence. But when we hit our 60s, we may lose some of this age-related self-esteem, especial...