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EVERYTHING
Women More Likely to Report Disrespect at the Doctor
What: Analysts at the Kaiser Family Foundation took a deeper dive into a 2024 survey and found 23% of women reported a health provider treating them with disrespect in the past two years–five percentage points higher than the men who said they had that experience. Of those who said they had been disrespected; weight was the top reason for both men (10%) and women (15%).
Key line: “One in five women (20%) said a health provider has ignored a direct request they made or question they asked, and another one in five (19%) report that a provider has assumed something about them without asking. Nearly one in five women say that a provider didn’t believe they were telling the truth, and one in seven (13%) say their provider suggested they were personally to blame for a health problem they were experiencing. One in 10 women say their provider has refused to prescribe them pain medication they thought they needed.”
Source: KFF
Among Female Founders, Health Dominates
What: Inc. is out with its Female Founders 500 list, and women who run health care companies make up a whopping 18% of the list. (Some other fun stats: Thirty-one of the founders are in California, followed by 18 in New York. Texas and Massachusetts tie for third with six each. And the list has four Jennifers!)
Key line: It’s not a quote from the piece, but here’s a breakdown of the most common health industries represented in the list: Reproductive Health (16 companies), Biotech & Genomics (12 companies), Nutrition & Wellness (11 companies), Digital & Preventive Health (9 companies), Mental & Behavioral Health (8 companies), Maternal & Child Health (7 companies)
Source: Inc.
PREGNANCY + POSTPARTUM
Why Can’t Women Get Permanent Contraception If They Want It Postpartum?
What: A qualitative study of postpartum patients and OBGYNs examined what barriers exist for women to get permanent contraception after delivery if they want it. They found that physicians cited age cutoffs and marital status as reasons women did not get the permanent contraception they wanted, and that hospitals lacked the staffing and scheduling needed to provide permanent contraception before discharge.
Key line: “…Furthermore, age-, marital-, and parity-based cutoffs for PC were described by both patients and OB–GYNs in our study. These cutoffs are likely due to literature highlighting the increased risk of regret for PCs performed at a younger age, as well as prior research that clinicians may discourage PC among those with low parity. Yet, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists states that physicians should avoid using these discrete cutoffs in the provision of PC as they are paternalistic.”
Source: Women’s Health
ABORTION ACCESS
The Plans to Come for Abortion Pills
What: The Cut’s Andrea González-Ramírez explains how the Trump administration’s early moves on abortion access—refusing to fight for women who don’t get life-saving care in ERs while miscarrying and protecting abortion clinics only in cases of “extraordinary” violence—have emboldened Republicans to go after abortion pills. She provides a detailed round-up of all the efforts underway.
Key line: “One of the most widespread efforts has been trying to replicate Louisiana’s crackdown on abortion pills. Last year, the state, where abortion was already illegal, became the first in the nation to reclassify mifepristone and misoprostol as ‘controlled dangerous substances,’ making it a crime to be in possession of the drugs unless someone is a licensed health provider or a pregnant person. This legislative session, at least seven states — Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas — are pushing similar bills.”
Source: The Cut
MENOPAUSE
Menopause Fatigue: Maybe It’s the Heavy Bleeding?
What: Heavy, prolonged periods are the norm for one out of three women in menopause, according to a study from the Menopause Society. But you may not be surprised to learn that phenomenon hasn’t been studied much, nor have the potential side effects of prolonged bleeding…like fatigue.
Key line: “To the authors’ knowledge, the study is the first to evaluate over time the association between heavy and prolonged menstrual bleeding among premenopausal and perimenopausal women and their reports of fatigue or vitality. ‘Menstruation remains a subject cloaked in silence and associated with taboos, even within the realm of scientific inquiry,’ said lead study author Dr. Siobán Harlow, professor emeritus of epidemiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan, via email. ‘Lack of dialogue about menstruation, particularly about the changes in bleeding patterns as women approach menopause, leads to women’s lack of knowledge about what is normal.’”
Source: CNN, Menopause Society
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