What: Brittany Barreto explains how Kegg, a device that helps women do Kegel exercises and measures cervical mucus electrolytes to predict fertility, now has enough data to study this as a potential type of nonhormonal birth control.
Why it matters: This is the virtuous cycle in action – paying attention to women’s health needs leads to potentially better/expanded options for women.
Source: Forbes
Advances in neonatal care now make it possible to save extremely premature babies, some born as early as 22 weeks.
The TikTok birth control content that gets clicks? It’s often about rare side effects or straight up misinformation.
The variant accelerates reproductive aging, leading to a greater number of abnormal eggs.
A panel discussion featured in The American Journal of Managed Care explores how sleep disturbances during menopause significantly impact women’s health – even if they aren’t hot flashes.
How hormonal changes during menopause, particularly the decline in estrogen levels, can lead to muscle pain and body aches.
A recent documentary on menopause made a big splash, but some experts are criticizing it for overstating the risks of cancer and heart disease associated with hormone replacement therapy.
Looking at infertiity rates in the wake of Trump administration officials, like top health nominee RFK Jr., claiming that it is on the rise.
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
Tampons and pads can be a luxury item for the lowest income Americans.
Anti-abortion groups aren’t thrilled about his nomination, and they are demanding that he commit to hiring anti-abortion leaders at HHS and publicly commit to antiabortion policies during his confirmation hearings.
A study in JAMA found that first-time mothers who suffered serious complications during their pregnancy, delivery, or postpartum period were 12 percent less likely to have a second baby.
One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.
A study published in BMJ Mental Health found that the oral microbes in pregnant women are linked to their stress levels and mental health symptoms.
The increased risk was particularly linked to gynecological cancers.
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.
Reproductive rights groups are not ready to embrace compromises on abortion, IVF, and birth control access, arguing that they could harm access to reproductive care.
Georgia state officials shut down an entire committee dedicated to reviewing maternal mortality in the state, after ProPublica reported in September on the deaths of two women as a result of the state’s abortion ban.
The Texas committee responsible for examining all pregnancy-related deaths in the state has decided to skip cases in 2022 and 2023, the first two years after the state’s full abortion ban went into effect.
Alex Taylor of Perelel and Kathryn Schubert of the Society for Women’s Health Research argue that investing in women’s health is not only a moral imperative, but also an economic one.
Despite state-level abortion bans following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the number of abortions performed in the U.S. decreased by only 2% that year, according to a CDC report.