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Health Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: New FDA guidance explains that Plan B is not an abortion pill

Politics Sara Burnett — Associated Press

STAT Plus: Abortion rights groups look to next fights after 2022 wins

Health Helen Branswell

With monkeypox spreading globally, many experts believe the virus can’t be contained

First Opinion Céline Gounder and Michael Donnelly

How dating apps could help stop the spread of sexually transmissible infections

First Opinion David C. Harvey

The next epidemic may be here. The U.S. isn’t ready for it

First Opinion Tracey Wilkinson, Julie Maslowsky and Laura Lindberg

A major problem for minors: post-Roe access to abortion

First Opinion Cynthia A. Stuenkel and JoAnn E. Manson

Are five decades of progress in women’s health in peril?

First Opinion Oni Blackstock

Barring cisgender women from the Descovy trials was a bad call

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Biotech Kate Sheridan

STAT Plus: New research highlights an unexpected future for RNAi-based drugs — for pregnant women

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Panel recommends everyone at high risk of getting HIV be offered a prevention pill

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In the Lab Megan Thielking

Scientists are trying to create a contraceptive that stops sperm in its tracks

First Opinion Megan Christofield

Could precision medicine help women choose the contraceptive that works best for them?

Health Megan Thielking

STAT Plus: Scientists see a problem with Trump plan on defining sex: biology

First Opinion Nina Agrawal

As a pediatrician, I work with sexually assaulted teens. They deserve full investigations

First Opinion Melanie Thompson and Matthew Zahn

Sexually transmitted infections are at an all-time high. Urgent action is needed

Health Kate Sheridan

STAT Plus: Will insurers have to cover the controversial contraception app Natural Cycles under Obamacare’s mandate?

Biotech Rebecca Robbins

STAT Plus: A women’s health startup tried to drum up interest for a much-needed drug. Many men didn’t get it

First Opinion Doris Browne

Trump administration’s proposed change to Title X endangers doctor-patient trust

First Opinion Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos

As the dark side of IVF slowly comes into focus, even more transparency is needed

Health Justin Chen

Adherence to PrEP, the HIV prevention drug, is low. A new study suggests a pill with a tiny sensor might help

Health Helen Branswell

STAT Plus: A case study in the fast-rising threat of antibiotic resistance

Health Associated Press

Fewer U.S. teens smoking, doing drugs, and drinking milk

First Opinion Régine Sitruk-Ware

Getting contraceptives for men to the market will take pharma’s help

Business Rebecca Robbins

STAT Plus: These are the most — and least — friendly states for a new wave of buzzy telemedicine startups

Business Rebecca Robbins

A startup promised to make health care ‘refreshingly simple.’ Building the business has been anything but