What: Period tracker app Flo crunched the numbers from 19 million users and found as women got older their periods got “shorter and more variable.” But the exception was between ages 47 and 55 when “the length increases sharply, with a corresponding increase in cycle variability.”
Why it matters: It’s good to know this is a thing (and feels crazy that it’s taken until 2024 to collect this data!)
Source: New Scientist
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.
Digging into menopause, and specifically how “the medical field is failing menopausal women.”
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.
One of the women, Sunni, told viewers that “she was craving information when she was planning her abortion. ‘This is the video I was looking for.’
A progressive group, Campaign for Accountability, sent letters to state attorneys general in Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
The AP has the dystopian details on what pregnant women face in America after Roe: “One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in.”
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.
Mary Claire Haver is an OB-GYN with four million (!!!) followers across social media platforms that she gained by talking about everything menopause.
Olivia Munn talks about her cancer diagnosis, and the decision to fully remove her uterus and ovaries, despite wanting to have more children.
For the second year in a row the number of applicants to residency programs dropped in states that have abortion bans in place.
Three political science professors surveyed over 1,300 Americans about pregnancy dating.
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 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 New York Times has an obituary for Kris Hallenga, who died from breast cancer this week at age 38.
American support for abortion reached its highest level ever, with 63% of people saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
The Washington Post’s Leana Wen takes on the menopause study that led to millions of menopausal women getting little to no medical treatment for their symptoms.
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 deep dive worth spending your time on describing the reporter’s journey getting diagnosed and surgical treatment for endometriosis.
A study that aims to identify why Black women are at a higher risk of getting and dying from certain cancers.