Mar 7, 2018 5.1k Getty Images In TV and movies, characters (usually men) suffering a heart attack will go wide-eyed and clutch their chest. But in real life, a heart attack can come on without chest pain, especially in women. “Two-thirds of women will have less-typical, non-Hollywood heart attack symptoms,” says C. Noel Bairey Merz,...Read More

Period pain / Photo: Esther Simpson (cc) What to Expect in Perimenopause By OBOS Menopause Contributors | October 15, 2011 676 At midlife, women transition from their reproductive years to the natural end of monthly menstrual cycles. This transition — called perimenopause — usually begins in the 40s and ends by the early 50s, although any age from...Read More