I’ve spent the last 15 years of my life trying to avoid pregnancy. Now that I’m ready, getting pregnant is not nearly as easy as I thought it would be. When I met my current partner, I was 20. The beginning years of relationship have been amazing. We saw each other through undergrad and graduate [...]

Tucked away in the township of Gugulethu, on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, is a popular butchery and open-air shack restaurant called Mzoli’s Meat. A successful Black-owned business, Mzoli’s is famous for its grilled meats, good music, and huge crowds. It’s also known for bringing people together, attracting both locals and foreign tourists, [...]

Most of us go through our day with a sense of invincibility. We don’t believe bad things will happen to us. So, we’re often blindsided when they do. In the early days after the lockdown started, I was shocked at the scale of the pandemic and how quickly our lives turned upside down. I’m sure [...]

When I was a child, the only screen I switched on during Christmas was the television and usually, that was to watch a holiday classic with my family. I was born in the 80s and I still remember the things we did when the Internet didn’t exist. We played outside, visited friends to talk, and [...]

If you're like most parents, all you want for your kid is for them to be healthy. That includes getting them the recommended vaccines to help prevent disease. In fact, nearly 90 per cent of children in Canada are immunized against a range of ailments before their second birthday. But when it comes to the [...]

Twenty years ago, the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra hit the market and delighted men who had difficulties in the bedroom. Then, in 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drug for boosting female libido called Addyi (flibanserin) in the United States. The approval, which came after two previous rejections over lackluster [...]

HIV science is advancing at incredible speeds. In the four decades since the virus was discovered, we have gone from death sentence to chronic condition, and fear of easy contagion to new hope through treatment that can make people with human immunodeficiency virus uninfectious. The scientific community gathered in Paris this past week at the [...]