Tag: health

• Why Midlife Women Embrace Authenticity: A Neuroscience Perspective

  Dec 30

  It is not rudeness, it is neuroscience At some point in midlife, many women notice something quietly revolutionary. They speak more honestly. They apologise less. They stop bending themselves into… more ›

• 🩺 NHS Under Pressure: What the Flu Data Really Shows

  Dec 11

  This week, several NHS trusts have declared critical incidents due to an early and significant surge in flu cases. While some on social media social media is ablaze with clinical… more ›

• Trump’s Higher Education Changes: Implications for Nursing from a Feminist Perspective

  Nov 29

  The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration has proposed revisions to graduate student lending that will significantly change how students finance advanced degrees. These changes classify eleven fields,… more ›

• Chapter Eight: Abuse, Trauma, and Protective Singleness

  Oct 8

  Introduction While many women in the twenty-first century embrace singleness as a form of autonomy or lifestyle choice, others arrive at it as a protective strategy. Experiences of childhood abuse,… more ›

• Prenatal paracetamol, autism risk, and leucovorin: what the strongest science really says

  Sep 23

  Does Paracetamol in Pregnancy Cause Autism? What the Evidence Really Says Why are people talking about this? You may have seen headlines claiming that taking paracetamol (acetaminophen) in pregnancy causes… more ›

• Tightening Jowls and Defining the Jawline: What Really Works?

  Sep 14

  One of the most common beauty concerns women talk about as we get older is the loss of definition in the jawline. Jowls; those little pockets of sagging skin either… more ›

• The Real Reason Women Give Birth on Their Backs: A History of Power, Control and Convenience

  Jun 14

  For most of human history, women gave birth upright, squatting, kneeling, sitting, even standing, using gravity, movement, and instinct to assist the process. Today, in most Western hospitals, women are… more ›

• Sex-Based Differences in Pain Perception and the Role of the Biopsychosocial Model in Evidence-Based Practice

  May 14

  “Why are we learning this?” is a common question asked by healthcare students when introduced to evidence-based practice (EBP). Yet, when we take a closer look at the unequal treatment… more ›

• RFK Jr., Autism, and the Danger of Epidemic Rhetoric

  Apr 18

  Welcome to Curious Femme – where critical thinking meets compassion. On 16 April 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a highly publicised address claiming that autism rates have reached epidemic… more ›

• 🌿 “You Can’t Pour From an Empty Cup”: A Burnout Prevention Plan That Actually Works

  Mar 30

  Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about burnout. Not the dramatic collapse we imagine, but the quiet, creeping exhaustion—the grey fog that makes everything feel heavy. If you work in… more ›