Here are the most interesting items we saw this week in women’s health:
🩺 The Supreme Court let the abortion pill stay on telehealth — for now (again). The court ruled Thursday that mifepristone can continue being prescribed via telehealth while a Louisiana challenge moves through lower courts. Two conservative justices dissented, calling the result a “perpetration of a scheme” against the court’s decision to allow states to ban abortion.
💊 Postpartum depression peaks around two weeks after birth. A Lancet Psychiatry meta-analysis of around 2 million women across 90 countries found the highest prevalence of major depressive disorder comes earlier than most standard screening starts.
🔬 PCOS is officially being renamed PMOS. A global group of 56 organizations and The Lancet agreed to rename polycystic ovary syndrome to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, finally reflecting the metabolic and hormonal disease it actually is. The “cysts” were never cysts. They’re arrested follicles.
TOP CLICKED STORIES THIS WEEK
Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America Launches National Campaign to Cut U.S. Maternal Mortality in Half Within Five Years — Heartland Forward
New Gov’t Website Will Help CPCs Collect Data On Pregnant Women — Abortion, Every Day
The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet — The Atlantic
Cardiovascular Health Characterization Using Life’s Essential 8 Score in Perimenopausal Women: An Analysis of the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey — Journal of the American Heart Association
How to Improve Your Bone Health — Vogue
The global prevalence of major depressive disorder during the peripartum period: a systematic review and meta-regression — The Lancet Psychiatry
