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
February 14, 2024
(The Hill) – A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the preterm birth rate went up 12 percent between 2014 and 2022. Doctors are not entirely sure what is driving the increase, but multiple … Read More
February 14, 2024
(New York Times) – Women who develop high blood pressure or diabetes in the course of pregnancy are more likely to give birth to children who develop conditions that may compromise their own heart health at a young age, scientists … Read More
February 12, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Uterine is the only cancer for which survival has fallen in the past four decades, the American Cancer Society said. The disease will kill some 13,250 women in the U.S. this year, the group estimates, surpassing … Read More
February 12, 2024
(The Economist) – Uteruses are lined with the endometrium, a layer of tissue that thickens during a menstrual cycle. If a fertilised egg does not become implanted, the lining thins and is shed as a period. If endometrial tissue grows … Read More
February 1, 2024
(New York Times) – Women are much more likely than men to have their immune system turn against them, resulting in an array of so-called autoimmune diseases, like lupus and multiple sclerosis. A study published on Thursday offers an explanation … Read More
January 26, 2024
(Axios) – Women in low-income regions of the U.S. are experiencing significantly more cases and deaths from cervical cancer despite an overall decline of the disease, according to a new study in the International Journal of Cancer. Why it matters: … Read More
January 25, 2024
(STAT News) – A historic new study out of Scotland shows the real-world impact of vaccines against the human papillomavirus: The country has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV … Read More
January 25, 2024
(Axios) – More than 64,500 pregnancies have resulted from rape in the 14 states that banned abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned, with the vast majority occurring in states that don’t make exceptions for rape, researchers estimated today in … Read More
January 23, 2024
(STAT News) – Dense breast tissue means that people have more fibrous and glandular tissue, which appears white on a mammogram, than fatty tissue. Cancer, too, looks like a white mass on a mammogram, so dense breasts can make it … Read More
January 22, 2024
(New York Times) – When such patients head into an operating room, what happens next has a lot to do with their sex, a recent study in JAMA Surgery reported. The study reinforced years of research showing that male and … Read More
January 18, 2024
(Longreads) – Things are changing fast in the field of obesity, and a new generation of children are facing treatment choices that their parents never had. But are more options always better? It’s a question Lisa Miller takes great pains … 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 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 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 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 28, 2023
(STAT News) – Women who had undergone disfiguring surgery for breast cancer, according to one surgeon in the 1970s, needed to “stick an old sock in their bra and get on with their lives.” It was this climate that Betty … Read More
