What: North Carolina women on Medicaid—nearly 30% of women in the state—can now get the over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, at no cost.
Why it matters: North Carolina restricts abortion after 12 weeks. Making birth control free of charge can go a long way to helping women in the state avoid unwanted pregnancies.
Source: ABC News
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Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
What: The New York Times combs through VP Kamala Harris’ record on abortion from her days as a prosecutor, finding an “unwavering conviction” that women
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
Breaking down cravings during menstrual cycles, and how some small studies have shown the foods we crave may be driven more by culture than by biology.
Sharing the stories of women who have had fibroids removed without pain medication or endometriosis symptoms ignored for years.
“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.’”
The New York Times analyzed over 600 speeches (!!!) from Donald Trump on abortion and shows visually just how much his rhetoric has changed.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
A deep dive on the queen of menopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and her push to get more women treatment for menopause symptoms.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
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.