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Missing women data

First Opinion By Melinda Gates

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

Kenneth Frazier

Business By Matthew Herper

Merck to spin off new $6.5 billion firm focused on women’s health, older drugs

HIV test woman

First Opinion By Oni Blackstock

Barring cisgender women from the Descovy trials was a bad call

FDA

Health By Sharon Begley

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

Preterm baby

First Opinion By Adam C. Urato

The FDA must pull Makena off the market

Postpartum moment

First Opinion By Amy Compton-Phillips

5 things hospitals can do today to keep women from dying during childbirth

Declining ultrasounds

Health By Megan Thielking

‘I wanted to trust my body’: Against doctors’ recommendations, some pregnant women refuse ultrasounds

mammogram

Health By Megan Thielking

Hormone therapy during menopause raises breast cancer risk for years, study finds

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Telemedicine Rx abortion pill

First Opinion By Ushma D. Upadhyay

The FDA approved the abortion pill 20 years ago. It’s time to make it available via telehealth

childbirth hospital bed racism

First Opinion By Leslie Farrington

How the CDC and others are failing Black women during childbirth

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Partially obscured operating room tubal ligation

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

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

Women's exam room private equity

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

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

Carrie Diehl

Health By Alice Proujansky

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

elderly woman/telehealth intimate partner violence

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

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

doc consulting patient

Biotech By Elizabeth Cooney

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

Bay Area PPE

First Opinion By Saralyn Mark

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

Male and female symbols

In the Lab By Elizabeth Cooney

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

HONDURAS hpv

First Opinion By Emma McKim Mitchell

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

birth in the time of Covid-19

First Opinion By Laurie Zephyrin

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

PPD study app

Health By Megan Thielking

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

tombstones maternal deaths

First Opinion By Adam Wolfberg

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

gestational carriers

First Opinion By Robert Klitzman

Paying gestational carriers should be legal in all states

Mifepristone RU486 abortion pill

First Opinion By Tracey Wilkinson

Abortion advice should be as safe as abortion itself

Sperm motility illustration

Biotech By Kate Sheridan

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

GOOP lab production still

First Opinion By Jennifer Gunter

Goop’s pseudoscience ministry comes to Netflix

Marijuana pregnancy

Health By Megan Thielking

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

Breast Cancer cells

Health By Matthew Herper

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

Birth Control Pills

Health By Associated Press

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

drugs

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

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

Childbirth trauma illustration

Health By Elizabeth Preston

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

Sarah Chamberlain

Health By Sharon Begley

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

Chlamydia

Health By Associated Press

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

Tdap vaccinations

Health By Helen Branswell

Large numbers of pregnant women not getting key vaccines, CDC says