What: In an event tied to the White House’s Women’s Health Research Initiative, actress Halle Berry will join First Lady Jill Biden at the University of Illinois Chicago that will focus on “advancing research on menopause and women’s health.”
Why it matters: This is the first public event for the Women’s Health Research Initiative since federal agencies had to turn in recommendations for spending at the end of December.
Source: The Hill
“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.’”
Tampons and pads can be a luxury item for the lowest income Americans.
The variant accelerates reproductive aging, leading to a greater number of abnormal eggs.
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.
Actress Florence Pugh discussed living with PCOS and endometriosis, and her decision to freeze her eggs at 27 years old.
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This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
How hormonal changes during menopause, particularly the decline in estrogen levels, can lead to muscle pain and body aches.
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.
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.
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.
An analysis of over 18,000 adults found that signs of sleep apnea are correlated with a higher chance of having dementia, especially among women.
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Sharing the stories of women who have had fibroids removed without pain medication or endometriosis symptoms ignored for years.
Researchers found postpartum depression more than doubled, going from 9% in 2010 to 19% in 2021.
Breaking down cravings during menstrual cycles, and how some small studies have shown the foods we crave may be driven more by culture than by biology.
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
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