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
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
Women with type 2 diabetes who got a GLP-1 medication were less likely to develop new fibroids than women who just took metformin, a diabetes medication.
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.
This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
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.’”
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
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 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 the queen of menopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and her push to get more women treatment for menopause symptoms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
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.
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
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.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)