women’s health

First Opinion By Leslie Farrington

How the CDC and others are failing Black women during childbirth

First Opinion By Divya Dethier, Megan L. Evans and Erin Tracy Bradley

Medicaid needs to change its archaic rules for women seeking permanent contraception

First Opinion By Alexander Borsa, Joseph Bruch and Sarah S. Richardson

When private equity firms invest in women’s health clinics, who benefits?

Health By Alice Proujansky

Pregnancy poses challenges for people in recovery from substance use disorder. Covid-19 is taxing their support system

First Opinion By Melinda Gates

Sexist and incomplete data hold back the world’s Covid-19 response

First Opinion By Eva Luo, Toni Golen and Alexa B. Kimball

Rising to the challenge of screening for intimate partner violence during Covid-19

Biotech By Elizabeth Cooney

Myovant endometriosis drug meets its goal in a second late-stage trial, company says

First Opinion By Saralyn Mark

Account for gender/sex to make personal protective equipment safer for women

In the Lab By Elizabeth Cooney

Females are still routinely left out of biomedical research — and ignored in analyses of data

First Opinion By Emma McKim Mitchell

All women should have access to the at-home test that can provide early detection of cervical cancer

First Opinion By Laurie Zephyrin

The challenges of giving birth in the time of Covid-19

Health By Megan Thielking

How to rebrand a research study? For one project, Instagram influencers and a dash of wit go a long way

First Opinion By Adam Wolfberg

It will take a village to solve the epidemic of maternal deaths in the U.S.

First Opinion By Robert Klitzman

Paying gestational carriers should be legal in all states

First Opinion By Tracey Allyson Wilkinson

Abortion advice should be as safe as abortion itself

Biotech By Kate Sheridan

‘The gurus of sperm’: Ohana Biosciences is taking a different approach to fertility 

First Opinion By Jennifer Gunter

Goop’s pseudoscience ministry comes to Netflix

Health By Megan Thielking

As more states legalize marijuana, pregnant women and their doctors grapple with how to talk about it

Health By Matthew Herper

Breast cancer drug picked up by AstraZeneca shrinks tumors in majority of women with common tumor

Health By Associated Press

A monthly birth control pill? Experiment in pigs opens door to more trials

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Merck is probed by Spain’s antitrust regulator for allegedly delaying competition for a contraceptive

Health By Sharon Begley

Calling for federal action, watchdog says there’s no evidence dietary supplements for infertility help women get pregnant

Health By Elizabeth Preston

Ignored, threatened, berated: After difficult childbirth experiences, new parents seek healing by speaking up

Health By Sharon Begley

From assisted hatching to embryo glue, most IVF ‘add-ons’ rest on shaky science, studies find

Health By Associated Press

Three sexually transmitted diseases hit new highs again in U.S.