*By Matthew J. Palm

Women with breast cancer who get newer genetic tests to estimate their risk of recurrence may not be any more anxious about their test results than their peers who get older tests that focus on fewer genes, a recent study suggested.

A Saudi teen's live-tweeted asylum plea has cast a renewed spotlight on women's rights just months after women won the right to drive, and sparked rare criticism of restrictive "guardianship" laws -- from men.

Women Health in India is usually put at the backburner by themselves or their families. Any health conditions in them generally go unnoticed until it’s too late.

Women who experience a ‘false positive’ result after a mammogram are twice as likely to end up developing cancer as those who get a negative result, research suggested.

Iranian women play important role in society despite Western media propaganda, said the project manager of DocsBarcelona international documentary film festival.

American women were paid roughly half of what men have earned for doing the same job over the past 15 years, considering time off for family or child care, according to a new study

Women in the UK are much more likely than men to get an increase in earnings from going to university, said an analysis of salaries at the age of 29 by a British institute.

More than half the women who were murdered worldwide last year were killed by their partners or family members, making home "the most dangerous place for a woman", a new United Nations (UN) study said on Sunday.

Alcohol is killing more people and at a younger age in the United States, and the biggest increases in mortality are among women, according to a new analysis.

Sports Desk

At least 37 Palestinians have been injured when Israeli forces opened fire at protesters in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Democratic gains were fueled by women, young and Hispanic voters, a Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll found. Fifty-five percent of women said they backed a Democrat for the House this year, compared to 49 percent in the 2014 midterm congressional election.

Society Desk

Exposure to wood smoke can have different effects on the respiratory immune systems of men and women — effects that may be obscured when data from men and women are lumped together, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.