What: In an event tied to the White House’s Women’s Health Research Initiative, actress Halle Berry will join First Lady Jill Biden at the University of Illinois Chicago that will focus on “advancing research on menopause and women’s health.”
Why it matters: This is the first public event for the Women’s Health Research Initiative since federal agencies had to turn in recommendations for spending at the end of December.
Source: The Hill
The Washington Post’s Leana Wen takes on the menopause study that led to millions of menopausal women getting little to no medical treatment for their symptoms.
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.
Olivia Munn talks about her cancer diagnosis, and the decision to fully remove her uterus and ovaries, despite wanting to have more children.
Erin Hirshberg writes a devastating but beautiful essay on having a stillbirth at 36 weeks
The Cleveland Clinic launched a “Women’s Comprehensive Health and Research Center,” which aims to help women in midlife get the care they need.
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.
Supreme Court justices seemed split mainly along ideological lines during oral arguments over a federal requirement that hospitals provide emergency care to stabilize a patient, including abortions when necessary.
The so-called clinics promote “abortion pill reversal,” which doesn’t have medical or scientific evidence to back it up.
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.”
Writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages.
For the second year in a row the number of applicants to residency programs dropped in states that have abortion bans in place.
Veterans and active military members are only eligible for fertility care if they can prove their infertility was caused by their service
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.
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.
Medicare sometimes won’t pay for additional breast scans, like an ultrasound or MRI, for women with dense breast tissue, even though mammograms can miss tumors in those situations.
One of the women, Sunni, told viewers that “she was craving information when she was planning her abortion. ‘This is the video I was looking for.’
A deep dive worth spending your time on describing the reporter’s journey getting diagnosed and surgical treatment for endometriosis.
Three political science professors surveyed over 1,300 Americans about pregnancy dating.
Examining the never-ending allure of menstruation being tied to the cycles of the moon.
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.