What: New York Times columnist Jessica Grose explains why she got botox as she neared 40– and why she regrets it now.
Why it matters: It’s always good to hear perspectives on the pros and cons of procedures – the entire internet is incentivized to feed us positive information on products so people make money through affiliate links.
Source: New York Times
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.
Writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages.
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.
Veterans and active military members are only eligible for fertility care if they can prove their infertility was caused by their service
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.
Digging into menopause, and specifically how “the medical field is failing menopausal women.”
The Biden administration issued new regulations to protect medical records for reproductive health care across state lines.
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 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 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.
Senate Democrats called out Republicans for proposing a federal pregnancy database.
The so-called clinics promote “abortion pill reversal,” which doesn’t have medical or scientific evidence to back it up.
One of the main recommendations is bringing mental health care into “all relevant perinatal settings.”
A deep dive looks at the use of long-acting contraceptives, such as IUDs and implants.
I think that most women remember, and may even still have that book on their shelves, What to Expect When You’re Expecting. …Well, there’s no equivalent of that for women over 40. I wrote this book saying to myself, how about what to expect when you expect to live past 40?
A study that aims to identify why Black women are at a higher risk of getting and dying from certain cancers.
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.”
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.