Women's Health News

Though a federal judge has blocked a strict Texas abortion law, most state abortion providers say they’ll still respect the dictates of the law because they fear litigation if it’s put back into effect.

A federal judge has paused the recent Texas abortion law that bans nearly all abortions in the state.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a major Mississippi abortion case on Dec. 1, which could challenge the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion.

A Texas doctor revealed in a Washington Post op-ed Saturday that he violated the state ban on abortions performed beyond 6 weeks -- a move he knows could come with legal consequences.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop enforcement of Texas’s restrictive new abortion law, with Attorney General Merrick Garland calling it a “scheme to nullify the Constitution.”

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he has begun a wide-reaching federal effort to protect women’s right to an abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a restrictive Texas abortion law to go into effect.

A Texas law that bans abortions at 6 weeks went into effect on Wednesday, becoming one of the strictest in the country since the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide.

Record Number of Abortion Restrictions Passed This Year, Group Says July 12, 2021Ninety abortion restrictions have been enacted in 2021 -- the most in one calendar year since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion with Roe v. Wade in 1973, according to a study from the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights.The 90 restrictions were passed during the first six months of the year. The previous record was 89 abortion restrictions passed during the whole of 2011, the study says."We're really trying to bring attention to the fact that state legislatures are moving very quickly on abortion

The tablets are the first new drug approved in the antifungal class in more than 20 years. Few other options have previously been available for the condition.

Death by suicide or overdose is a leading cause of death for women in the first year after they give birth, a new analysis shows.

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists has said the in-person requirement is medically unnecessary and puts patients and medical staff at risk during the pandemic.

Social media users reacted to the preliminary findings with both applause and sarcasm. Some users said, “You could’ve just asked us,” and “Did they think we’ve been lying all this time?” Even still, others pointed to the benefits of having a large number of participants and long-term data to study women’s health.

Although it's still in development, a vaccine against current and future urinary tract infections could also wipe out other problems, such as women being given the wrong antibiotic or given antibiotics for too long, a pair of newly released studies say.

The findings underscore the need to screen women who receive fractures to their ulna for possible intimate partner violence, researchers said. That includes those who say they were injured in a fall.

Scotland will be the first country to make tampons and sanitary pads available for free to all who need them. The vote passed Scotland’s parliament unanimously on Tuesday.

Teigen first shared that she and her husband, John Legend, had lost their unborn baby, Jack, in late September.

In a study that spanned 24 years and included more than 79,000 premenopausal women who had no history of heart disease, cancer or diabetes, those who'd always had irregular menstrual cycles were more likely to die before the age of 70 than those who had regular cycles.

In 2018, 658 women died while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy, and there were 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.

Researchers examined workplace sexual harassment in the United States, Japan and Sweden. They found that female supervisors experienced between 30% and 100% more sexual harassment than other women employees.

Researchers at Google and several universities are working on an artificial intelligence (AI) model aimed at improving the accuracy of mammography screening.

A Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions was upheld Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.

A new study shows many cases of cancer could have been headed off by regular screenings.

Binge drinking is on the rise among Americans, especially among women, with rates doubling among childless females in their early 30s, a new study finds.

Always isn’t the first commercial entity to move toward a more gender-neutral approach. Thinx, a company that makes period-proof underwear, uses the tagline “For people with periods.” Last month, toy company Mattel made headlines when it announced a new line of gender-inclusive dolls.

The FDA wants breast implant makers to warn women that breast implants are not lifetime devices, and that the risk of complications rises the longer a patient has the implant.