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Andrea Osborne got creative with ways to connect with her mother when she moved into a memory care facility.
Andrea Osborne, CBC Corporate Director of Content
No one can seem to agree on what to call mental health challenges that come up during pregnancy and postpartum.
Megan Roberts, WRAL contributor
WRAL contributor Nili Zaharony explains what it is like to "walk with vulnerability" and how it can help you not feel alone.
Nili Zaharony, WRAL contributor
Breast cancer screening saves lives, but when to start screening hasn't always been clear. While the age to start has been debated in recent years, most experts now agree that women should start having mammograms at age 40.
Dr. Anita Skariah, an internist with UNC Health who treats women at various stages of life, calls women master multitaskers. Skariah said most women she sees all have one thing in common -- they put their health on the back burner.
May is Women's Health Month, but so many women don't prioritize their health.
Jessica Patrick, WRAL senior multiplatform producer
My daughter's senior prom took place in April. As I rushed around town on last minute errands - picking up corsages and heel inserts for her shoes - my mind kept drifting back to my mom.
The Triangle area has a wealth of resources to support moms, birthing people, and new families during one of life's biggest transitions: having a baby.
A new data analysis shows it is becoming less common for women to get pregnant when they don't want to be. Researchers are finding access to birth control could be a factor.
Ali Ingersoll, WRAL Investigative Data Journalist
One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Unfortunately, for me, that number is much higher. In late April, I got the dreaded news for a fourth time: Our baby was gone.
Sarah Krueger, WRAL reporter
May is Women's Health Month, but a lot of women are suffering with private health issues like incontinence and pain in silence.
I still think of Mom and the fun we had with the kids when I walk down rows filled with flats of flowers, ready to be planted.
"I had no symptoms," said Lorelei Colbert. "I had no idea breast cancer was living inside me."
Destinee Patterson, WRAL multimedia journalist
Lorelei Colbert said her world changed when was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer in September of 2020.
So you've hit perimenopause, the transition from your reproductive years into menopause. This happens to most women in their 40s when hormone levels begin to decrease. It's normal for perimenopause to bring about changes in your body and life. But depression doesn't have to be one of them.
UNC Health Talk
A new safe space is set to open Monday in an effort to provide more support for families in the triangle affected by domestic violence, sexual violence and even human trafficking.
Survivors of domestic violence in Durham will now have an easier time getting connected with important services.
Sarah Krueger, WRAL Senior Durham reporter and Lora Lavigne, WRAL anchor/reporter
A million thoughts tore through my brain when the diagnosis of Alzheimer's came back for my mom. Like I would imagine many people react, one of my first thoughts was "Will she forget me?"
One constant companion that brought joy during Mom's Alzheimer's journey was humor. Even when things were hard, we could always count on laughter to bring us together.
The Komen Race for the Cure is coming up on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Boxyard RTP.
One of the greatest comforts I found along my mom's Alzheimer's journey was finding other people who "got it."
New updates to US Food and Drug Administration mammography regulations require mammography facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts.
By Janelle Chavez, CNN
Clinic by clinic, county by county and up to the highest levels of state government, no state embodies the nation's post-Roe upheaval like North Carolina.
Kate Kelly, New York Times
Women seeking abortions in the south have found North Carolina to be a welcome sight since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a piece of landmark legislation in Roe v. Wade.
Even though midwifery has been around for centuries, there is still a lot of misinformation about midwives. When deciding whether to have a midwife help you manage your pregnancy or gynecological care, it's important to separate these myths from the truth.