January 23, 2024
(STAT News) – The nonprofit stopped taking calls on Dec. 19, and made the “very very difficult decision” to suspend operations until Feb. 1, said Taren Holliman, the organization’s program manager. It’s among a handful of abortion funds that have … Read More
January 18, 2024
(New York Times) – One of the newest battlefields in the abortion debate is a decades-old federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known by doctors and health policymakers as EMTALA. The issue involves whether the law … Read More
January 18, 2024
(BBC) – Scientists have grown “mini-placentas” in a laboratory to help them better understand pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia occurs in about six in 100 first pregnancies. It can put at risk both the mother and baby’s health. The international study shows it … Read More
January 17, 2024
(STAT News) – The new method developed by Su and her colleagues seeks to assess embryo quality by looking at pieces of genetic material called extracellular RNA (exRNA) left behind in the liquid that embryos are grown in. Their findings … Read More
January 15, 2024
(Big Think) – Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized primarily by problems with communication and social interactions. According to recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the disorder affects an estimated one in 36 … Read More
January 12, 2024
(Axios) – Gender dysphoria diagnoses rose in nearly every U.S. state between 2018 and 2022, per a new Definitive Healthcare report. They fell only in South Dakota, which last year became the sixth state to restrict gender-affirming care for minors. … Read More
January 12, 2024
(ProPublica) – According to the latest UNICEF report, the U.S. was worse than 151 countries in reducing its stillbirth rate between 2000 and 2021, cutting it by just 0.9%. That figure lands the U.S. in the company of South Sudan … Read More
January 11, 2024
(ABC News) – An Ohio woman facing a criminal charge for her handling of a home miscarriage will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday. The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office said grand jurors declined to return an indictment for … Read More
January 11, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Cancer is hitting more young people in the U.S. and around the globe, baffling doctors. Diagnosis rates in the U.S. rose in 2019 to 107.8 cases per 100,000 people under 50, up 12.8% from 95.6 in … Read More
January 10, 2024
(The Guardian) – Guatemala is often cited as the worst-case scenario for what can go wrong when adoptions are commercialised and children are sent from poorer countries to wealthier ones. Outright kidnappings like Preat’s were rare, but other abuses were … Read More
January 9, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Nearly half the states have banned medication or surgical treatment for transgender youth. Independent clinics and medical practices located in states where such care is either allowed or protected have moved to fill that void for … Read More
January 9, 2024
(Associated Press) – Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on what he called the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the “commercialization” of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity. … Read More
January 9, 2024
January 8, 2024
(Atavist) – An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back. Of the more than 80 births Perwaiz billed Medicaid and Tricare, another insurer, for in 2019, at least … Read More
January 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The Supreme Court said Friday [January 5] it would hear Idaho’s challenge to federal regulations requiring that Medicare-funded hospitals provide abortions when necessary to stabilize a patient during a medical emergency, and allowed the state to … Read More
January 4, 2024
(ABC News) – Flooding from a burst water main at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has disrupted services for about 200 patients seeking to have children through in vitro fertilization, leaving some of them devastated. Alexis Goulette, who runs a … Read More
January 3, 2024
(The Atlantic) – In 2016, most major news sites, including this one, largely stopped covering the disease regularly. Despite the absence of a treatment or vaccine, the world’s attention moved on. There are good reasons for this: Zika cases dropped … Read More
January 3, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Just about every time an embryo implants and begins to grow, it dispatches bits of itself into the body housing it. The depositions begin at least as early as four or five weeks into gestation. And they … Read More
January 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become harder to … Read More
January 2, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – With the number of babies in free fall—fewer than 10 million were born in 2022, compared with around 16 million in 2012—China is headed toward a demographic collapse. China’s population, now around 1.4 billion, is likely … Read More
December 29, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – The women shared not just DNA but a powerful, almost innate desire to know their origins. Reproductive technologies have remade families, particularly since in vitro fertilization was introduced in the U.S. more than 40 years ago. … Read More
December 28, 2023
(MedPage Today) – Benzodiazepine use during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, according to a nationwide study in Taiwan. The population-based, case-time-control study of more than 3 million pregnancies found that benzodiazepine use was linked with a … Read More
December 26, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Wesley, a high-school algebra teacher in Dalton, Mass., has taken in more than 70 children for foster care over the years, some for just a night or two. Social workers sometimes woke her up, asking if … Read More
December 26, 2023
(NPR) – As 2023 comes to a close, so too does the first full year of the post-Roe era in America. Some of the year’s developments were expected, like more conservative states enacting abortion restrictions. Others were surprising, like the … Read More
December 26, 2023
(NPR) – Thirty-two-year-old Kelsey Hatcher welcomed two beautiful baby girls into the world last week, delivering fraternal twins at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. But unlike typical twins, the newborns came from two separate wombs. (Read More)
