Health-fitness
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My Healing Journey After Sexual Assault
To recover from an assault at the hands of a friend, I spent months experimenting with different therapies.
By Remy Ramirez
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What It's Like to Undergo Chemotherapy During COVID-19
Michelle Hynek, 46, was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer seven months ago. For her, isolation looks a lot different.
By Rachel Epstein
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Surrogacy Is Complicated—Then Add a Global Pandemic
In Ukraine, COVID-19 has left surrogates trapped and newborns abandoned.
By Daniela Prugger and Oksana Parafeniuk
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Death Companioning and How It’s Helping Me Get Through the Pandemic
How an online course about grief helped me ease my COVID-19-related anxieties.
By Christine Colby
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Coronavirus Ground Zero: 'In 12 Days, the World Had Turned Upside Down'
In this exclusive Hearst Magazines portfolio, meet the everyday heroes treating patients, cleaning rooms, and comforting families at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City.
By Marie Claire
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Hopeful, Proud, Tired: How Frontline Workers Feel Fighting the COVID-19 Crisis
A photographer shot and interviewed 17 New York City healthcare heroes working tirelessly to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
By Benedict Evans
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COVID-19 Is Keeping Women From Having Kids
A new survey by SoFi and Modern Fertility finds that the virus has put family planning on pause.
By Serena Tara
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Exercise, Periods, Showering—It's All Different for Women in Space
NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor explains what a beauty, health, and fitness routine is like for women in space.
By Maya Allen
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Online Workout Classes to Stream While You Practice Social Distancing
12 p.m. workouts are a thing now!
By Rachel Epstein
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What Will COVID-19 Do to Pregnant Women's Mental Health?
Doctors are preparing for an increase in pandemic-related mental health issues brought on by stress, isolation, and economic distress.
By Leah Rose Chernikoff
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Pregnant Women Are Wondering: Should I Have a Home Birth?
The Covid-19 pandemic is causing additional panic for expectant mothers, who no longer know if a hospital is the best place for them.
By Jessica Zucker
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IVF On Hold
COVID-19 stopped fertility treatments, leaving patients to wonder which will expire first: the restrictions or their own biological clocks.
By Kim Velsey
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Hospitals Don't Have Enough Medical Supplies to Fight COVID-19
Groups are raising funds to send healthcare workers masks, gloves, and gowns. Donate here if you have the means.
By Rachel Epstein
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Death Surrounds Her
Emily Rostkowski is an oncology nurse and cancer survivor herself. But now, like so many other healthcare workers, she spends her days in the center of the coronavirus storm.
By Erika Hayasaki
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How Healthcare Workers Are Fighting Coronavirus Behind-the-Scenes
"It’s nothing like any of us have seen before."
By Rachel Epstein
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Luxury Perfumer LVMH Will Use Its Factories to Produce Hand Sanitizer Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak
"These gels will be delivered free of charge to the health authorities,” said the corporation in a statement this weekend.
By Caroline Hallemann
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The New Coronavirus Is More Likely To Be Spread By Pre-Symptomatic People Than Experts Originally Thought
If you're still going out to dinners with friends, now's the time to start social distancing.
By Emily Becker
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'I'm a 42-Year-Old Woman Who Got the New Coronavirus. This Is What It's Been Like.'
"The cough and fever weren't nearly as difficult as calling everyone I'd crossed paths with to tell them I might have infected them."
By Marie Claire
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5 Mental Health Apps That Professionals Recommend
You are not alone.
By Bianca Rodriguez
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How to Be More Spiritual in 2020
It's time for you to speak fluent chakra
By Krystyna Chávez
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7 Sleep Supplements for Sweeter Dreams
Zzzz.
By Taylore Glynn
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Are New Year's Resolutions Still a Thing?
Our resident psychiatrist offers a way to make that resolution (finally) stick.
By Samantha Boardman
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20 Products That Helped Me Survive Maternity Leave
Because figuring out how to power through your fourth trimester is almost as hard as labor.
By Colleen Leahey McKeegan
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A Test With No Answer
No procedure exists that can prove virginity, yet dangerously unscientific virginity tests occur regularly—even in the United States. Marie Claire, in partnership with the Fuller Project, investigates the controversial exams and the gray area surrounding them that endangers both patients and medical professionals.
By Sophia Jones
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Living In the Moment Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be
Carpe diem? Our resident psychiatrist says not so fast—the future is worth a look.
By Samantha Boardman
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Could Chasing Happiness Actually Be Making Me Unhappy?
If you’re only pursuing happiness, you’re doing it wrong.
By Samantha Boardman
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My Hands and Feet Were Amputated After Childbirth
It's been very hard to accept that this is who I am now.
By Elizabeth Narins