Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would award $24 million for the first year to establish Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence. This funding is a component of the...
On Wednesday, August 16, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision that will restrict access to medication abortions. While the new ruling does not reverse the...
On July 28, 2023, the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) announced a new application platform for obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residency applicants in the...
A report published on July 13, 2023, by UNAIDS, a global effort to end acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), projects and outlines a plan to end AIDS by 2030. The 196-page report is divided into...
Across American Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN); Asian, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander (AANHPI); Hispanic; Black; and White patients, the United States maternal mortality rates (MMRs)...
On June 23, 2023, Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, extended the previous protections for abortion care providers, guarding providers in NY when offering telehealth abortion services to patients...
An Oxford Academic meta-analysis published this week found that natural conception after live birth via assisted reproductive technology (ART) was common, occurring in 20% of women. Looking at...
A recent KFF survey of obstetricians and gynecologists (OB/GYNs) on their experiences in a post-Dobbs world noted that 24% of clinicians had patients unable to get an abortion despite wanting one. The...
At the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Eric Adjei Boakye, PhD, shared survey data revealing that most Americans do not comprehensively understand the link between human...
In mid-April, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) released a detailed analysis of location preferences by residency applicants in a post-Roe world, noting a 10.5% obstetrics and...
On Friday, April 21, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a ruling upholding mifepristone approval, pending ongoing cases. The SCOTUS decision does not guarantee unlimited...
A systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open analyzed the association between mental health and reproductive disorders in women. While the researchers could not identify a...
On April 14, 2023, an order by Samuel A. Alito, Jr., a judge for the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS), issued an order that lifted restrictions on the abortion pill, pending a final ruling from the...
A national abortion reporting program found that, on average, 5,377 fewer abortions were performed each month after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The study conducted by the...
A study published in JAMA Network Open on April 3, 2023, analyzed the effects of family mealtime on pediatric nutrient intake, diet, and eating habits. Researchers determined that increasing the length...
On April 3, 2023, the WHO published an Infertility Prevalence Estimates report analyzing global infertility rates between 1990 and 2021. Researchers determined that 17.5% — or one-sixth —...
On Friday, March 17, 2023, Governor Mark Gordon signed an act prohibiting medication abortions in Wyoming. While Wyoming is already a red state with only one clinic providing abortions, this further...
On February 24, 2023, 12 states filed a lawsuit against the FDA to ease restrictions enforced for mifepristone, one of two pills required for a medication abortion. This lawsuit addresses concerns that...
A preclinical study in Nature Communication identifies compounds that may help develop non-hormonal male contraceptives. The study — led by NIH researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine — used...
To sustain the right to an abortion and other forms of reproductive care, democrat Governors from 20 states are pledging to create a nationwide ‘abortion firewall’ in the form of the...
