What: A study of how cosmetic foundation effects the skin while exercising (yes, you read that right.) Forty-three college students covered half their faces with foundation and worked out, and then scientists measured the results.
Why it matters: It’s not shocking but—makeup isn’t great for your skin while exercising. Researchers found it clogged pores and decreased oil and sweat produced.
Source: Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.
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.
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.
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
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.
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.
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.
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy
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.’”
Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead Medicare and Medicaid–the country’s massive health insurance programs for the elderly and lower-income adults and children.
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
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.
The increased risk was particularly linked to gynecological cancers.
Sharing the stories of women who have had fibroids removed without pain medication or endometriosis symptoms ignored for years.