What: Pregnancy doesn’t just make your heart beat more or increase your blood volume – it “dramatically rewires every major organ” in the body. That’s according to a study of monkeys, and it surprised scientists to see changes not just in organs like the liver and heart, but also the skin and muscles.
Why it matters: Understanding these metabolic changes could lead to treatments for pre-eclampsia or gestational diabetes.
Source: Science
A federal judge struck down Wyoming’s abortion ban, ruling it unconstitutional and granting access to abortion in the state.
One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.
Sharing the stories of women who have had fibroids removed without pain medication or endometriosis symptoms ignored for years.
Tampons and pads can be a luxury item for the lowest income Americans.
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.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
“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.’”
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
Skincare brand Drunk Elephant has recalled some products due to contamination concerns, after ingredients were mixed up in several items.
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
Advances in neonatal care now make it possible to save extremely premature babies, some born as early as 22 weeks.
The New York Times analyzed over 600 speeches (!!!) from Donald Trump on abortion and shows visually just how much his rhetoric has changed.
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.
An essay from Rachel Manteuffel on her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment that manages to be funny while also tackling the wrenching choice to have chemotherapy or not after a mastectomy.
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.
Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead Medicare and Medicaid–the country’s massive health insurance programs for the elderly and lower-income adults and children.
Researchers found postpartum depression more than doubled, going from 9% in 2010 to 19% in 2021.
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.
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.