Women’s Health News

We ask leading Australian female business leaders about how they are approaching health, mental wellbeing, and performance in the year ahead.

Romance and love does not have to follow rules to be real. It does not need to be posted, launched, or validated to count.

Self-collect for cervical screening is a game-changer because it allows women to screen on their own terms, writes Rebecca White.

Cheaper PBS medicines mean affordable contraception, menopause, endometriosis and IVF treatment. A change that has been decades in the making.

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of the biggest news in women’s health, across research, funding and policy reform

Dubbed the ‘Sandwich Generation’, these multi-generational carers, most of whom are women, oftentimes feel overwhelmed and unsupported. 

It’s seen as a “global template for how to get health promotion right,” with 38 years of health promotion work, including on smoking prevention, and the successful This Girl Can initiative. But now the standalone VicHealth is set to be abolished.

As more women athletes compete in sport, a new set of global recommendations is calling for routine strength exercise warm-ups to be mandated.

While Australia obsesses over menopause, midlife women are caught in a collision of crises – and Big Wellness is cashing in on the crash.

With an increasing number of Australian women using weight loss drugs, such as Ozempic, new guidelines and research are emerging. 

About one in ten perimenopausal or menopausal women masturbate to relieve their symptoms, according to a study.