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Should you ‘fix’ your posture? Why experts say always sitting up straight won’t help your back pain.

Did your parent or a grandparent ever poke your back so you would pull your shoulders back? Or perhaps a teacher reminding you to sit up straight and at attention? Or maybe you (like me) have gotten those targeted Instagram ads trying to sell you Taylor Swift’s posture trainer? Good posture has long been touted…

Women’s pain and discomfort has a history of being ignored in health care. Here are two ways that’s starting to change.

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Two major developments in women’s health have recently made news: less invasive alternatives to the pap smear — long considered “an uncomfortable but necessary evil” for cervical cancer screenings — and the new pain management guidelines for IUD insertion, the highly effective contraceptive that many women have said hurts when placed in the uterus to…