October 3, 2024
(STAT News) – Often, women with sickle cell disease are told not to have kids. They might come to an appointment, happily pregnant, only for the doctor to tell them they shouldn’t be. They might be preparing for a scheduled … Read More
October 1, 2024
(New York Times) – Death rates are declining among U.S. women with breast cancer. But the disease is turning up more often in women under age 50. Rates of breast cancer — the second leading cause of cancer deaths in … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Washington Post) – In its annual report of yearly procedures for 2023, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons dubbed the new popular look the “ballet body.” Fueled by the rise of the blockbuster GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic and Wegovy, thinness … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – The lack of access can increase the risk of infections, depression and missing school and social activities. A third of teens and young adults in the U.S. can’t afford or otherwise access menstrual products, according to new … Read More
September 25, 2024
(Nature) – A team of scientist–sleuths has flagged data-integrity concerns in 130 studies authored by the same biomedical researcher, a specialist in women’s health and gynaecology, and his colleagues. The sleuths published their findings in a peer-reviewed paper earlier this … Read More
September 23, 2024
(New York Times) – Breast reduction is all the rage in cosmetic surgery. Are women asserting their independence or capitulating to yet another impossible standard of beauty? The women walk into the surgeons’ offices with photos cued up on their … Read More
September 23, 2024
(Wired) – Women suffer from migraines three times as often as men, and often with more intensity. New research into the role of hormones is helping explain why. Women suffer from migraines three times as often as men, with episodes … Read More
September 23, 2024
(The Hill) – Falzone, a journalist and endometriosis advocate, is one of more than 50 million Americans who grapple with chronic pain, the vast majority of whom are women. Women bear a disproportionate amount of pain over the course of … Read More
September 23, 2024
(NBC News) – Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period. The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during … Read More
September 23, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – People who are gestational carriers (or “surrogates”) may have a higher risk of severe complications during pregnancy and early postpartum, hypertension in pregnancy, and postpartum hemorrhage, compared to people who conceive without assistance or with IVF, according … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. One adoptee, once hidden in a grocery bag, found there was more to her own story. In “Ricki’s Promise,” a 2014 documentary by Changfu … Read More
September 16, 2024
(ABC News) – Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned in a new study that offers the first detailed map of a woman’s brain throughout … Read More
September 11, 2024
(NBC News) – Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences identified a compound that affects an area of the brain that triggers hormone production. The age when girls hit puberty has been falling at an alarming rate for … Read More
September 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Patients received “substantial” payments, their lawyers said, and the clinic agreed to staffing changes. Yale agreed on Monday to pay dozens of patients who had filed lawsuits claiming that they had endured excruciatingly painful egg retrieval … Read More
September 9, 2024
(Axios) – Giving birth became measurably riskier during the pandemic, as factors causing complications — from obesity and diabetes to mental health issues — rose 20% between 2020 and 2023, according to a FAIR Health analysis shared first with Axios. … Read More
September 9, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Women nationwide will soon learn from testing whether they have dense breast tissue that puts them at higher risk The Food and Drug Administration starting Sept. 10 will require that women nationwide be notified whether their … Read More
September 6, 2024
(Vogue) – We are an anxious nation, an anxious world. Look at the news and it is there for everyone to see. Some 16 percent of the US adult population takes medication for mental health (a figure measured pre-pandemic; one … Read More
September 4, 2024
(KFF Health News) – About 11,000 Asian American and Pacific Islander women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021 and about 1,500 died. The latest federal data shows the rate of new breast cancer diagnoses in Asian American and Pacific … Read More
September 4, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Information on contraceptive choices “particularly salient” in the wake of Dobbs Rates of pregnancy after tubal sterilization may be higher than previously expected, according to an analysis of national survey data. After having their “tubes tied,” 2.9% … Read More
September 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Preeclampsia, marked by a sudden increase in blood pressure, is on the rise. Yet there’s little research about the life-threatening disorder. The rate of preeclampsia and other disorders in pregnancy related to high blood pressure more … Read More
September 2, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – White women are paid up to eight times more for their eggs than Black women in the U.S., according to data uncovered by the author of a new book which exposes the lesser-known ramifications of egg donation. … Read More
September 2, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Although estimates vary, some research suggests that about a third of women of reproductive age in the United States may not get enough iron, which helps support various functions in the body. But despite the high prevalence … Read More
August 29, 2024
(Wired) – Major technology companies, including Google, Apple, and Discord, have been enabling people to quickly sign up to harmful “undress” websites, which use AI to remove clothes from real photos to make victims appear to be “nude” without their … Read More
August 29, 2024
(USA Today) – A nurse was stealing fentanyl from the Yale Fertility Center. These women expressed their pain every step of the way – but no one listened. They’re finally ready to talk about what happened to them. The center … Read More
August 27, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – In a state that touts itself as “the most pro-life state in the country,” where abortion is prohibited except to save the life of the mother, timber country in southeast Arkansas is an especially dangerous … Read More
