March 26, 2024
(New York Times) – During about 90 minutes of argument, most of the justices seemed doubtful that the plaintiffs, who do not prescribe abortion pills or regularly treat abortion patients, even had standing to bring the challenge. The justices, including … Read More
March 21, 2024
(Washington Post) – Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic: people in their teens and early 20s who are more likely to believe what they see on their phones because of algorithms that … Read More
March 19, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – Having twins, I didn’t get the low-risk home birth with a midwife I’d dreamed of in my youth. My pregnancy was medically managed from beginning to end. But I did go deep into myself, suffer something … Read More
March 18, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Widespread genetic testing is uncovering case after secret case of children born to close biological relatives—providing an unprecedented accounting of incest in modern society. The geneticist Jim Wilson, at the University of Edinburgh, was shocked by the … Read More
March 14, 2024
(The Conversation) – I’m a cultural anthropologist who studies the ways feelings and beliefs circulate in American society. To investigate what’s behind mothers’ vaccine skepticism, I interviewed vaccine-skeptical mothers about their perceptions of existing and novel vaccines. What they told … Read More
March 13, 2024
(NPR) – The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics’ most recent report put the U.S. maternal mortality rate at a whopping 32.9 deaths per 100,000 births. That number garnered a great deal of attention, including being covered by NPR and … Read More
March 13, 2024
(NPR) – Flint, Mich., has one of the country’s highest rates of child poverty — something that got a lot of attention during the city’s lead water crisis a decade ago. And a pediatrician who helped expose that lead problem … Read More
March 11, 2024
(The Hill) – Health care workers — and particularly female health care workers — are burning out at alarming rates. A recent survey from nursing marketplace platform ShiftKey shared with The Hill found that 86 percent of women in the … Read More
March 8, 2024
(New York Times) – More than 230 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital cutting, according to a new analysis by UNICEF, an increase of 30 million since the organization’s last global estimate in 2016. While … Read More
March 8, 2024
(STAT News) – Girls across the globe are hitting puberty earlier than ever before. A 2020 study of 20 countries across six continents found that the median age when girls first experience breast development has dropped by about three months … Read More
March 8, 2024
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization on Friday urged governments to consider gender when developing their alcohol policies, warning that industry marketing increasingly targeted women who face greater health risks than men from lower levels of drinking. The Geneva-based WHO … Read More
March 6, 2024
(Reuters) – Global health donors pledged nearly $600 million towards eliminating cervical cancer on Tuesday, at the first global forum dedicated to fighting the disease. The World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF … Read More
March 6, 2024
(Wired) – Whether through the frowning high-definition face of a chimpanzee or a psychedelic, pink-and-red-hued doppelganger of himself, Reuven Cohen uses AI-generated images to catch people’s attention. “I’ve always been interested in art and design and video and enjoy pushing … Read More
March 5, 2024
(New York Times) – One in eight people is postmenopausal, and about 50 million women enter menopause every year. A new essay published on Tuesday in The Lancet argues that it’s time to stop treating them like patients suffering from … Read More
March 5, 2024
(STAT News) – Doctors say they are seeing more women like Ms. Parker try weight-loss medications in the hopes of having a healthy pregnancy, or of conceiving in the first place. Women with obesity are sometimes advised to lose weight … Read More
March 4, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – Transhumanism is so over. Wrinkles are so back. Young women’s social media feeds are flooded with plugs for Botox. By our early twenties, modernity is already dangling opportunities in front of us to flee from a … Read More
March 4, 2024
(Axios) – There were about 488 deaths per day from excessive drinking in the U.S. during the height of the pandemic from 2020 to 2021, part of a surge in alcohol-related fatalities seen over five years, the Centers for Disease … Read More
March 4, 2024
(NPR) – Opill, the first oral contraceptive pill to be available without a prescription in the U.S., has shipped to retailers nationwide. It will be sold online and in the family planning aisle of drugstores, convenience stores and supermarkets later … Read More
February 29, 2024
(New York Times) – Alcohol-related deaths surged in the United States by nearly 30 percent in recent years, with roughly 500 Americans dying each day in 2021, according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and … Read More
February 27, 2024
(The Guardian) – Six midwives and three patients sued the state of Hawaii on Tuesday after the government last year prohibited birth workers without a specific midwifery license from providing maternal healthcare. The lawsuit, filed today by the Center for … Read More
February 27, 2024
(NPR) – The monthly rate of antidepressants being dispensed to young people increased about 64% more quickly during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers used the IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Database to examine … Read More
February 26, 2024
(ProPublica) – The report found that among people getting health care benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs, the rate of severe complications nearly doubled during that time, from about 93 per 10,000 hospitalizations in 2011 to just over 184 … Read More
February 21, 2024
(STAT News) – In 2022, 4.3 million American adults reported having ME/CFS, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. At least twice in history, new pockets of patients have emerged: once in the 1980s, and again since … Read More
February 15, 2024
(NBC News) – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted a series of interviews and focus groups with 32 Black women ages 27 to 34 about their past experiences with obstetric care, along with their perspectives … Read More
February 14, 2024
(New York Times) – This winter, for the first time ever, there were two vaccines available to ward off respiratory syncytial virus, which is particularly dangerous to older adults and infants. Only one of them — Abrysvo, made by Pfizer … Read More
