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
August 21, 2024
(STAT News) – Lack of research into miscarriage in the U.S. — its prevalence, its causes, and how best to treat people who’ve experienced pregnancy loss — has helped to reinforce what has long been a culture of silence and … Read More
August 16, 2024
(Ars Technica) – San Francisco’s city attorney David Chiu is suing to shut down 16 of the most popular websites and apps allowing users to “nudify” or “undress” photos of mostly women and girls who have been increasingly harassed and … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Biden administration says hospitals must offer abortions when needed to save a woman’s life, despite state bans enacted after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion more than two years ago. Texas is … Read More
August 7, 2024
(Nature) – A study of hospital emergency departments suggests that women have more limited access to painkillers and medical care. Physicians treat men and women differently when it comes to pain — women in hospital wait longer to be seen … Read More
August 6, 2024
(PBS) – As Team USA continues to dominate at the Olympics, the most decorated American athlete in track and field history, Allyson Felix, is in Paris with a different goal in mind. She wants to change the narrative around mothers … Read More
August 5, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Vladimir Putin, who has long cultivated an aura of machismo as Russia’s strongman leader, is enlisting women to grow Russia’s population through childbirth and to rebuild his nation as a great power steeped in traditional … Read More
July 29, 2024
(Newsweek) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is to sue the Biden administration to stop a federal program that gives birth control to teens without parental consent. Title X, introduced in 1970, allows contraception to be given without parental consent. … Read More
July 24, 2024
(ABC News) – Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday. There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a … Read More
