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China faces continuing fertility drop across all regions, new study finds

Temporal trends in total fertility rates and investigated the regional variations and differences in total fertility rates.

16 Apr 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Arizona turns back the clock on abortion access

The Arizona Supreme Court shook up the national abortion debate this week, ruling that a ban originally passed in 1864 — before the end of the Civil War and decades before Arizona became a state — could be enforced.

12 Apr 2024

California universities are required to offer abortion pills. Many just don’t mention it.

When Deanna Gomez found out she was pregnant in September 2023, she felt the timing couldn't have been worse.

2 Apr 2024

Contraceptive content shared on social media largely not from health experts, study finds

Brigham researchers looked at tweets from 2014 to 2019 about contraceptive methods and found that only a small fraction were authored by health professionals.

29 Mar 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Supreme Court and the abortion pill

In its first abortion case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Supreme Court this week looked unlikely to uphold an appeals court ruling that would dramatically restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone.

28 Mar 2024

Long-term use of certain progestogen drugs may raise risk of intracranial meningioma

Prolonged use of certain progestogen hormone drugs is associated with an increased risk of developing a type of brain tumor known as an intracranial meningioma, finds a study from France published by The BMJ today.

27 Mar 2024

At stake in mifepristone case: Abortion, FDA’s authority, and return to 1873 obscenity law

Lawyers from the conservative Christian group that won the case to overturn Roe v. Wade are returning to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in pursuit of an urgent priority: shutting down access to abortion pills for women across the country.

25 Mar 2024

From Puberty to Menopause: Clue’s CEO, Audrey Tsang on the Power of Femtech

For Endometriosis Awareness Month, NewsMedical interviewed Audrey Tsang, CEO of Clue.

22 Mar 2024

Web-based decision aid helps pregnant women to make informed decisions about sterilization

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a simple, web-based decision aid called My Decision/Mi Decisión that helps empower pregnant individuals who are considering tubal sterilization to make informed decisions about their reproductive health, according to a new study published today in JAMA Network Open.

19 Mar 2024

Homeless women experience practical challenges in managing menstruation alongside feelings of embarrassment and shame

A new study published online in Women and Health reviews literature on this topic, from the practical challenges through the emotional strain to demonstrations of resourcefulness in managing periods while homeless.

19 Mar 2024

Addressing period poverty among homeless women

Research from the University of Southampton has identified common issues women face when experiencing periods while homeless.

18 Mar 2024

The state of the union is … busy

President Joe Biden is working to lay out his health agenda for a second term, even as Congress races to finish its overdue spending bills for the fiscal year that began last October.

7 Mar 2024

Novel screening system reveals sperm cell development and health at the molecular level

A novel screening system developed at Kyoto University enables researchers to investigate sperm cell development and health at the molecular level.

5 Mar 2024

Unlocking non-hormonal male contraception with HDAC inhibitors

Surveys show most men in the United States are interested in using male contraceptives, yet their options remain limited to unreliable condoms or invasive vasectomies.

20 Feb 2024

Managing migraines and menopausal symptoms to reduce cardiovascular risks in middle-aged women

14 Feb 2024

Hormonal steroids could make gonorrhea untreatable

You know that package warning that oral birth control won't prevent STIs? Well in the case of gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted bacterium that causes the disease can use those hormones to help it resist antibiotic attacks.

8 Feb 2024

Birth control pills may alter stress response, increase inflammation risk, study suggests

A new UCLA Health study is shedding light on how using hormonal contraceptive pills may affect women's responses to stress and their risk for inflammation-related illnesses.

7 Dec 2023

Health care is front and center as Desantis and Newsom go mano a mano

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom — political rivals from opposite coasts and proxies for red and blue America — are set to square off for a first-of-its-kind debate Nov. 30 in Georgia.

27 Nov 2023

Hormonal contraceptives taken by adolescents may affect risk assessment behavior

Hormonal contraceptives taken by adolescents may influence development of the brain in a way that alters the recognition of risks, a new study in rats suggests.

13 Nov 2023

How do sex hormones and birth control affect brain fear circuits?

Researchers explores how oral contraceptive pill use interacts with the current hormonal status to affect the fear circuit structure within the brain.

9 Nov 2023

Birth Control News and Research

China faces continuing fertility drop across all regions, new study finds

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Arizona turns back the clock on abortion access

California universities are required to offer abortion pills. Many just don’t mention it.

Contraceptive content shared on social media largely not from health experts, study finds

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Supreme Court and the abortion pill

Long-term use of certain progestogen drugs may raise risk of intracranial meningioma

At stake in mifepristone case: Abortion, FDA’s authority, and return to 1873 obscenity law

From Puberty to Menopause: Clue’s CEO, Audrey Tsang on the Power of Femtech

Web-based decision aid helps pregnant women to make informed decisions about sterilization

Homeless women experience practical challenges in managing menstruation alongside feelings of embarrassment and shame

Addressing period poverty among homeless women

The state of the union is … busy

Novel screening system reveals sperm cell development and health at the molecular level

Unlocking non-hormonal male contraception with HDAC inhibitors

Managing migraines and menopausal symptoms to reduce cardiovascular risks in middle-aged women

Hormonal steroids could make gonorrhea untreatable

Birth control pills may alter stress response, increase inflammation risk, study suggests

Health care is front and center as Desantis and Newsom go mano a mano

Hormonal contraceptives taken by adolescents may affect risk assessment behavior

How do sex hormones and birth control affect brain fear circuits?

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

From Puberty to Menopause: Clue’s CEO, Audrey Tsang on the Power of Femtech

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