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Healthcare cost fear
Healthcare AccessNearly Half of American Women Are More Afraid of the Medical Bill Than the Diagnosis

A Cleveland Clinic survey found nearly half of U.S. women are more worried about affording care than getting a serious diagnosis.

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NIH sex data
Research and ScienceStudy: A Decade After NIH Required Sex Data Reporting, Most Funded Research Still Isn't Doing It

Only 44% of NIH-funded studies report results broken down by sex, despite a 2016 policy requiring it.

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PCOS menopause
Reproductive HealthA Potential Upside to PCOS Nobody's Talking About

Women with PCOS reach menopause later and report 32% fewer symptoms, including 41% fewer hot flashes.

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CDC buried study
Women and COVIDThe CDC Had Evidence That Last Winter's COVID Vaccine Worked. It Didn't Publish It.

A study showing the vaccine cut ER visits by ~50% was blocked from publication in the CDC's own journal.

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Organ aging
MenopauseStudy: Your Organs Don't Age Together

The first large-scale atlas of female reproductive aging found ovaries, uterus, and vaginal tissue follow completely different timelines.

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The Menopause Supplement Market Is a Billion Industry.
Menopause The Menopause Supplement Market Is a Billion Industry. Here's What the Evidence Actually Says.

Magnesium, lion's mane, creatine, collagen - here's what the science actually supports for menopause symptoms, and what it doesn't.

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A Johns Hopkins Study Found a 9% Rise in Pregnancy Deaths in States That Banned Abortion
Maternal Health A Johns Hopkins Study Found a 9% Rise in Pregnancy Deaths in States That Banned Abortion

States that banned abortion after Dobbs saw a potential 9% increase in pregnancy-associated deaths - roughly 68 more women dead by end of 2023 than predicted.

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Women Are Two-Thirds of Alzheimer’s Patients. The Tests Used to Screen for It Were Designed Around Men.

Women’s stronger verbal memory lets them score “normal” on cognitive screenings even when Alzheimer’s pathology is already present — delaying diagnosis when early treatment matters most.

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Fewer Than 1 in 3 OB-GYN Residency Programs Include Menopause Training. That’s Why It’s Hard to Find Good Care.

A survey of OB-GYN residency directors found most programs offer no formal menopause training — while a $20 billion supplement industry fills the gap medicine left open.

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Uterine Fibroids Are Linked to an 81% Higher Risk of Heart Disease. Almost No One Talks About This.

A study of nearly 3 million women found those with uterine fibroids had significantly elevated cardiovascular risk — a connection that persisted for up to a decade after diagnosis.

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Your Mammogram Can Now Predict Your Heart Attack Risk. Most Doctors Don’t Know.

A new AI tool reads arterial calcification from standard mammogram images—a heart disease signal hiding in a scan women already get.

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Women Lose More Weight on Ozempic Than Men. Biology Probably Explains It.

New data shows women consistently outperform men on GLP-1 drugs—and researchers think sex-based differences in fat metabolism are why.

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Doctors Have Been Telling Pregnant Women to Rest. A New Study Says That May Cause Early Delivery.

The evidence for bed rest was always thin. A new trial confirms it may actually increase the risk of preterm birth.

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By 2050, 6 in 10 Women Under 55 Will Have Heart Disease. Prevention Is the Only Way This Changes.

New projections show a coming cardiovascular crisis concentrated in younger women. The window to act is now.

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IVF Throws Away Fluid That May Contain Viable Eggs. A New Device Found Them.

Standard IVF discards the follicular fluid after egg retrieval. Researchers found viable eggs in it 56% of the time.

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American Moms Don’t Recover From Postpartum Depression. Moms in Other Countries Do.

Research shows PPD persists far longer in the US than in comparable countries. The difference isn’t biology—it’s policy.

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Your Period Is Trying to Tell Your Doctor Something. Medicine Isn’t Listening.

Leading medical bodies now classify the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Most doctors still don’t treat it that way.

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Texas Disciplined Three Doctors After Pregnant Patients Died. It Took Years.

An investigation into how Texas’s medical board handled cases where physicians delayed abortion care—and women didn’t survive.

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