What: A Danish study of over 327,000 children found there was no association between BMI and children born using IVF or ovulation induction versus without any fertility treatments.
Why it matters: There had been some previous research that found correlations between assisted reproductive technologies and increased body weight as children aged.
Source: PLOS Medicine
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is concerned about low fertility rates in the country, a hobby horse he shares with billionaire Elon Musk and Trump VP candidate JD Vance.
The head of Donald Trump’s transition team was on CNN last night, and he spent a lot time praising RFK Jr.’s debunked theories that childhood vaccines cause autism.
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
Josseli Barnica was excited to be pregnant with her second child but suffered a miscarriage at 17 weeks. Instead of helping the miscarriage progress, doctors let her suffer for 40 hours because her fetus still had a heartbeat.
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
While around 80% of Medicaid patients paid nothing for labor and delivery, 60% of people on commercial insurance paid $1,000 or more out of pocket.
A study looks at which birthing position (i.e. lying down, standing up) women prefer most in labor, measured in part by which women report the highest levels of satisfaction with their labor.
Kidney disease in women has nearly tripled in the past 30 years, with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure as some of the leading causes.
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
What: The New York Times combs through VP Kamala Harris’ record on abortion from her days as a prosecutor, finding an “unwavering conviction” that women
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
Women with type 2 diabetes who got a GLP-1 medication were less likely to develop new fibroids than women who just took metformin, a diabetes medication.
An essay from Rachel Manteuffel on her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment that manages to be funny while also tackling the wrenching choice to have chemotherapy or not after a mastectomy.
A deep dive on the queen of menopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and her push to get more women treatment for menopause symptoms.
“They said ‘we think it’s very inappropriate for you to say so.’ I said ‘Why? I’m president, I want to protect the women.’”
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.