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
Senate Democrats called out Republicans for proposing a federal pregnancy database.
A progressive group, Campaign for Accountability, sent letters to state attorneys general in Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
An essay from Lucy Pasha-Robinson opens with one of the most gripping depictions of endometriosis pain I’ve ever read.
Erin Hirshberg writes a devastating but beautiful essay on having a stillbirth at 36 weeks
Shalene Gupta reminds us that unequal pay “is not the only way inequality manifests” among men and women in the workplace.
An analysis from the Society for Family Planning found that every month about 8,000 women living in states with strict abortion restrictions got abortion pills via mail by the end of 2023.
The FDA approved a new antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections in women, although the drug has been used in Europe for more than 40 years.
A deep dive worth spending your time on describing the reporter’s journey getting diagnosed and surgical treatment for endometriosis.
The New York Times has an obituary for Kris Hallenga, who died from breast cancer this week at age 38.
The third time was the charm for Arizona state House Democrats, who got three Republicans to join them in repealing the 1864 total abortion ban that was set to go into effect in the coming weeks.
A new book covers how cardiovascular care for women was nonexistent for decades, starting with Wiliam Osler, the physician who in 1889 created the residency model still in use today.
Florida’s state health care agency tried to push back on the fact that many women do not know they are pregnant at six weeks gestation, since it is only two weeks after a missed period for a woman on a very regular menstrual cycle.
It’s not just about avoiding counterfeits, providers need training to know where the forehead artery is, for example, or how to treat potential complications.
Examining the never-ending allure of menstruation being tied to the cycles of the moon.
For the second year in a row the number of applicants to residency programs dropped in states that have abortion bans in place.
a deep dive on why hospitals are closing OBGYN units throughout the country, and the answer isn’t the fall of Roe making obstetrical care legally dangerous. It’s far simpler than that: money.
Louisiana’s legislature is considering making the abortion pill medications the same as narcotic drugs, criminalizing the “possession of two medications used to induce abortion without a prescription, with punishments including prison time.”
TikTok is cracking down on creators who focus on weight loss, restricting content about “restrictive diets, ‘using medication or supplements for weight loss or muscle gain,’ or promoting weight loss products” to users who are 18 and up.
The Washington Post has more horror stories of women getting turned away from the ER because they are pregnant, and extreme state abortion bans have scared providers.
Hera Biotech company said they got good interim results from clinical trials of their endometriosis diagnostic tool.