What: An essay from Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff on how the birth control pill can work for years, and then suddenly start causing side effects, for unknown reasons.
Why it matters: Brinkhurst-Cuff highlights the lack of research into hormonal birth control side effects, writing that “for everyone, it seems to be a personal experiment with a cocktail of hormones, a shot in the dark.”
Source: The Guardian
Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy
The head of Donald Trump’s transition team was on CNN last night, and he spent a lot time praising RFK Jr.’s debunked theories that childhood vaccines cause autism.
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is concerned about low fertility rates in the country, a hobby horse he shares with billionaire Elon Musk and Trump VP candidate JD Vance.
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While around 80% of Medicaid patients paid nothing for labor and delivery, 60% of people on commercial insurance paid $1,000 or more out of pocket.
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
Kidney disease in women has nearly tripled in the past 30 years, with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure as some of the leading causes.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.
One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.
The New York Times analyzed over 600 speeches (!!!) from Donald Trump on abortion and shows visually just how much his rhetoric has changed.
“They said ‘we think it’s very inappropriate for you to say so.’ I said ‘Why? I’m president, I want to protect the women.’”
Josseli Barnica was excited to be pregnant with her second child but suffered a miscarriage at 17 weeks. Instead of helping the miscarriage progress, doctors let her suffer for 40 hours because her fetus still had a heartbeat.
A study looks at which birthing position (i.e. lying down, standing up) women prefer most in labor, measured in part by which women report the highest levels of satisfaction with their labor.
A deep dive on drinking and examining why people reacted far more swiftly to the news that smoking causes cancer than they have for alcohol—especially breast cancer.
An analysis of over 18,000 adults found that signs of sleep apnea are correlated with a higher chance of having dementia, especially among women.