What: 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.
Why it matters: The pad is designed to help measure blood sugar averages over three months, to aid in diabetes management.
Source: FemTech Insider
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.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.
“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.’”
One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.
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.
Sharing the stories of women who have had fibroids removed without pain medication or endometriosis symptoms ignored for years.
While around 80% of Medicaid patients paid nothing for labor and delivery, 60% of people on commercial insurance paid $1,000 or more out of pocket.
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.
Josseli Barnica was excited to be pregnant with her second child but suffered a miscarriage at 17 weeks. Instead of helping the miscarriage progress, doctors let her suffer for 40 hours because her fetus still had a heartbeat.
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.
A deep dive on the queen of menopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and her push to get more women treatment for menopause symptoms.
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.
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy
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
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight