Could this be an effective treatment for perinatal depression?
After passage of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic-leaning states generally chose to expand Medicaid, while Republican-leaning states did not. That set up a natural study to see how better access to healthcare affected moms with gestational diabetes and their babies.
A deep dive from National Geographic on how menstruation ends up reshaping the brain. Every time it happens.
Florida’s Supreme Court heard arguments today on a ballot initiative to protect abortion access to the state.
Period tracker app Flo crunched the numbers from 19 million users and found as women got older their periods got “shorter and more variable.”
Following yesterday’s study on women with PCOS having a higher risk of suicide, Psychiatrist.com points out that this builds on evidence from previous studies.
This is a nice, comprehensive round-up of Black-owned hair, skin, and makeup companies.
First Lady Jill Biden continued her tour of women’s health research facilities, visiting the Morehouse School of Medicine’s “2024 Women’s Heart Healthy Luncheon” in Atlanta.
A study looking at nearly 19,000 Taiwanese women with PCOS found they had a nearly 9-time higher risk of suicide than women without the condition.
Natural products are having a moment, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to make.
Sage Publications retracted two studies written and used by the anti-abortion movement to claim the abortion pill is dangerous.
An essay from Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff on how the birth control pill can work for years, and then suddenly start causing side effects, for unknown reasons.
An essay from Eleanor Barker-White on experiencing “vanishing twin syndrome”, when one fetus is absorbed by the other in the womb.
A JAMA study of 200,000 babies adds more evidence to the fact that pregnant women who get the COVID-19 vaccine protect their babies from complications
Pregnancy doesn’t just make your heart beat more or increase your blood volume – it “dramatically rewires every major organ” in the body.
A study in Obstetrics & Gynecology finds that Black women are “about 10 percent less likely to receive [an epidural] during labor” when compared with white women.
A lovely, thought-provoking essay from writer Laura Barton on unexpectedly becoming a mom at 45, after years of trying through miscarriages and fertility treatments.
A photographer from the New Yorker made regular visits to an abortion clinic in Maryland, one of the few dozen in the country to provide late-term abortions.
California’s public universities are required by state law to provide students with medication abortions at student health centers.
At-home menopause tests are now a thing, and the Washington Post looks at whether they work.