Health & Fitness

Symptoms like insomnia, bloating and emotional shifts can occur before menopause begins, but they are often improperly addressed by doctors.

One sufferer seeks relief for her bleeding feet.

“Being frail” may not sound like that big of a deal—maybe you even assume it’s kind of inevitable as you get older.

An obscure health insurance alternative is seeing tremendous growth. But there’s a catch.

Here's what happens to your heart, liver, skin, and more.

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Delia Cai is filling in as Prudie for Jenée Desmond-Harris while she’s on parental leave. Submit questions here. After my grandmother died, our family stopped coming together beyond the retired siblings going on occasional trips.

As the new year unfolds, try not to get too caught up in TikTok fitness fads or complicated workout routines. Instead, keep it simple but effective with some basic dumbbell compound exercises that will help you build full-body strength, muscle, endurance and power.

Last January, I offered some tips to help reboot your sleep health. That list still contains my top tips. But this year, I want to add to it based on some new findings that may inform your sleep decisions and conversations with your doctor.

I’d like to put forth January for worst month of the year. February requires you to trudge through only 28 or so frigid days, with the promise of spring on the other side.

Jonathan Toews had about as close to a dream career in hockey as you can get.