Hyperandrogenism is a condition characterised by an excess of androgens, or male sex hormones, in a woman’s blood. This excess leads to symptoms typically more common in men, such as acne, seborrhea, ...

Discover the complexities of hyperandrogenism, its causes, symptoms, treatment, and societal stigma impacting women's health ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2007;3(11):778-783. Clinical features initially attributed to PCOS Hirsutism, subfertility, greasy skin and acne Hirsutism, secondary amenorrhea, weight gain ...

Caster Semenya is a winner. The South African runner ranks first in the world for the women’s 800 meters and is second in women’s overall. She’s won gold medals in two Olympics and in two World ...

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa (AP) In the wake of the Caster Semenya sex-test scandal at the 2009 world championships, track and field's international governing body introduced contentious rules making ...

Testosterone is a male sex hormone or androgen that stimulates development of secondary sexual characteristics. This anabolic steroid hormone is produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries, ...

DOUBLE Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya has caused concern among athletes that her condition, hyperandrogenism, is giving her an unfair advantage. And the IAAF have ruled that Semenya will have ...

Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya lost an appeal Wednesday against new rules that regulate the testosterone levels for athletes with a difference in sex development. Semenya has hyperandrogenism, ...

Sports are not a level playing field. They never will be. Picture the lineup of athletes along a start line as they wait eagerly for the sound of the gun or gymnasts as they perform flips on a balance ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The young athlete, now competing at the Rio Games, always considered herself to be a girl just like the others, a girl who loved to run. Then the governing body of track and field ...

Lesbians are more than twice as likely as heterosexual women to have a hormonal imbalance that causes infertility, a British study has found, linking for the first time lesbian sexual orientation with ...