Researchers at UC San Diego announced they were able to identify the best performing embryos using “exRNA” cellular material that is left behind in the petri dish.
Extreme Republicans are holding up a government funding bill and insisting a food program for women and children that has been funded for decades not get a budget increase this year, despite increasing food prices.
A searing take from Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern of Republican state officials denying women who face medical danger abortion access.
More women joined a case in Tennessee challenging the state’s abortion ban, similar to a case brought in Texas.
Brittany Barreto explains how Kegg, a device that helps women do kegel exercises and measures cervical mucus electrolytes to predict fertility, now has enough data to study this as a potential type of nonhormonal birth control.
The FDA approved a pad from Qvin that doubles as a way to test the blood. The pad includes a removable strip that can be sent to a lab for analysis.
Emily Oster, the author of Expecting Better, takes on the New York Times’ recent reporting on procedures to address tongue ties in infants, aka frenotomies.
A report from Silicon Valley Bank (now a subsidiary of First Citizens) finds a 314% increase in women’s health VC investment since 2018.
Bodnar has eschewed the plans of other industry giants, who send influencers to Dubai to launch products, choosing nonprofits instead as a launching pad.
“Triple negative” breast cancer grows faster and is harder to treat than other types of breast cancers and makes up about 10-15% of cases.
Pharmaceutical company Bayer announced its menopause drug “eased hot flashes and improved sleep in two late-stage trials.”
Actress Halle Berry will join First Lady Jill Biden to talk about “advancing research on menopause and women’s health.”
The life and death of Yeniifer Alvarez in rural Texas, who died, along with her unborn child, at 30 weeks of pregnancy.
A digital stethoscope enhanced with AI helped identify twice as many cases of peripartum cardiomyopathy than traditional care.
A study of patients with a specific type of heart failure found that the rate of interventions were 68% lower (!!!) among women than men.
Eli Lilly’s Zepbound is the latest weight loss drug to hit the market and the company has set up a telehealth program to ship drugs directly to patients.
A deep dive explanation into a case in Ohio where a woman who miscarried a nonviable fetus at 21 weeks could be indicted for “abuse of a corpse.”
It was a small study, but investigators tested Contraline in 23 men in Australia and recorded sperm levels comparable to a vasectomy.
Researchers looked at over 9,000 women and found those with urine samples that were positive for cannabis were 27% more likely to have complications.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed legislation to give women 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal visits.