High heels are fashionable, but uncomfortable, and can even lead to chronic foot damage. At first glance, it doesn't make sense to favor footwear which harm and hurt feet, plus render it difficult to ...

Professor Hylton B Menz receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Women are often told how the very high-heeled shoes they wear are doing them harm. But ...

— -- Shoe shopping has changed. Women’s dress shoes used to be geared towards 3- to 4-inch heels. But the overall fashion trend toward comfort has added more choices in the sensible category. Be ...

You could be forgiven for thinking that high heeled shoes were constructed purely to torture women into feeling as if their toes had fallen off by the end of a night out, right? Wrong. They've got a ...

Update, October 14, 2019: The research upon which this story was based has been retracted due to “methodological weaknesses and statistical errors.” Cue a collective sigh from women everywhere: a new ...

Lady Gaga's massive 10-inch tapered heels may be purely for show, rarely making an appearance outside of the artist's music videos. But three-inch or higher heels are hard for many people to ...