What: Pharmaceutical company Bayer announced its menopause drug “eased hot flashes and improved sleep in two late-stage trials.”
Why it matters: This would add competition to the non-hormonal treatment of menopause symptoms if approved.
Source: Reuters
Olivia Munn talks about her cancer diagnosis, and the decision to fully remove her uterus and ovaries, despite wanting to have more children.
The story of cognitive neuroscientist Liz Chirastil, who made herself a guinea pig in her own experiment by getting 26 MRIs throughout her pregnancy and for two years after.
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.
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.
For the second year in a row the number of applicants to residency programs dropped in states that have abortion bans in place.
Erin Hirshberg writes a devastating but beautiful essay on having a stillbirth at 36 weeks
Writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages.
The Cleveland Clinic launched a “Women’s Comprehensive Health and Research Center,” which aims to help women in midlife get the care they need.
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.
The New York Times has an obituary for Kris Hallenga, who died from breast cancer this week at age 38.
A deep dive worth spending your time on describing the reporter’s journey getting diagnosed and surgical treatment for endometriosis.
A progressive group, Campaign for Accountability, sent letters to state attorneys general in Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
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.
Veterans and active military members are only eligible for fertility care if they can prove their infertility was caused by their service
Shalene Gupta reminds us that unequal pay “is not the only way inequality manifests” among men and women in the workplace.
Nearly 60 percent said they “can just live with” discomfort caused by health issues if they’re not debilitating (!!!)
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.
An article from Duke’s Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy says it is “the first to evaluate new and existing laws criminalizing abortion…”
One of the main recommendations is bringing mental health care into “all relevant perinatal settings.”