What: The start of a new year often means new laws, and in New Jersey it means pharmacists can offer birth control pills without a prescription.
Why it matters: As state Sen. Shirley Turner put it – “It’s safe, it’s been in effect for 50 years, and there seems to be no problem with women taking contraceptives…So they don’t need to really go to a doctor just for a prescription. And when you do that, of course, you’ve got to pay. So it costs more money.”
Source: Gothamist
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.
A deep dive on drinking and examining why people reacted far more swiftly to the news that smoking causes cancer than they have for alcohol—especially breast cancer.
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.
Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy
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.
This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
A deep dive on the queen of menopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and her push to get more women treatment for menopause symptoms.
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
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.
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.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
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.
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.
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
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
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.
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.
“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.’”
Women with type 2 diabetes who got a GLP-1 medication were less likely to develop new fibroids than women who just took metformin, a diabetes medication.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.