Currie Engel

1 week ago | womenshealthmag.com | Currie Engel

First came emails. Then a flurry of phone calls and emergency meetings. For many doctors, scientists, and other researchers, the news that their funding was being cut didn’t feel real. Over the past few months, some people specializing in women’s health issues across the country received jarring news: Their research projects, clinical trials, and even jobs in some cases would be grinding to a halt. Effective immediately.

2 weeks ago | womenshealthmag.com | Currie Engel

It’s early in the morning, and Lulu Hunt Peters, MD, sits at her desk, puzzling over the manuscript she’s writing about a miraculous weight-loss method she learned about back in her medical school days at the University of California.

1 month ago | womenshealthmag.com | Currie Engel

In April of 2005, we launched our first-ever official print issue into a world that looks very different from today’s. A few months earlier, George W. Bush was sworn in for his second presidential term. The iPod Nano is about to be released, and Hurricane Katrina is four months away from barreling into Louisiana. The terms GLP-1 and Apple Watch aren’t in regular circulation, and talking about topics like postpartum depression, eating disorders, and “my therapist” will get you funny looks.

Dec 9, 2024 | womenshealthmag.com | Currie Engel

It’s a strange but little-known fact that you actually made your appearance on this planet as an egg in your grandmother’s uterus. Yep. A female fetus (your mom, in this scenario) develops ovaries, with all the immature eggs she will ever have, by 20 weeks gestation. So, your X chromosome has likely existed for decades before you were even conceived.

Dec 2, 2024 | womenshealthmag.com | Currie Engel

If you ask a group of women if they’ve ever had an IUD placed, their responses about the experience will likely vary. Some may shrug and say, “It wasn’t too bad” or “It was like a really bad period cramp.” But chances are high that at least one will have a horror story. They fainted from the pain. Or maybe threw up. Or screamed out loud. Maybe the doctor had to try three or four times to place the device, and the bleeding wouldn’t stop.