"A new Kansas law and a Florida bill outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them."

"A new Kansas law and a Florida bill outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them."
"During a recent five-year period, a substantial portion of maternal deaths in America — almost one-third — took place more than six weeks after childbirth, at a time when most new mothers think they are in the clear, researchers reported on Wednesday.
The study, published in JAMA Network Open, is one of the first to track maternal health complications during pregnancy and in the year after delivery."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/health/maternal-death-pandemic.html
A Conversation with WHO’s Dr. Allotey https://www.byteseu.com/898819/ #Bleeding #Blood #Childbirth #diabetes #epidemiology #FemaleGenitalMutilation #GestationalDiabetes #GlobalHealth #Health #HealthSystems #Healthcare #HIV #InfectiousDiseases #MaternalHealth #MentalHealth #Mortality #Newborn #poverty #pregnancy #PublicHealth #ReproductiveHealth #Research
"The elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team — a group of six epidemiologists, data analysts and researchers — shocked public health experts and IVF advocates who said they had felt encouraged by President Donald Trump’s comments supporting access to the infertility treatment."
"The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday in a case over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, which comes amid a wider push from abortion opponents to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider."
#YourLocalEpidemiologist #YLE #KatelynJetelina
Why we keep going
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.
#HIV #Asthma #airQuality #EnvironmentalHazard
#GunViolence #Communications #workersafety
#ReproductiveHealth #BirthDefects #DisabilityHealth
#TB_Prevention #BloodDisorder
#DrugUse #MentalHealth
#LeadPoisoning #WaterSafety
#TobaccoControl
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/why-we-keep-going
#HealthCare #us #usa #sectarian #kleptofascist #billionaire #looter
"Wyoming no longer has a clinic offering procedural abortions. Now, patients are traveling hundreds more miles to neighboring states for care....A new state law, pushed by abortion opponents, placed strict requirements on the clinic, including getting its physicians admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and making extensive renovations."
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1jorwjs/rif_notice_received_this_morning_by_cdc_comrade/?share_id=0PRcWu-wtBjVfd--byXyg&utm_name=ioscss As the attached says, check the validity of each RIF yourself. We deserve public health and women's health. It's #WorthFightingFor #cdc #PublicHealth #democracy #womenshealth #reproductivehealth #doge #fascism
City University of New York: Reproductive health apps must do more to protect user data, researchers say. “The research trio found that Europe-based apps Clue and Flo both scored 3.5 out of 5 for privacy and security. U.S.-based apps showed varied results, with Period Tracker by GP Apps scoring 2, while Stardust scored 4.5. Major concerns involved IP address tracking and third-party data […]
Sierra Leone debates decriminalizing abortion http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJkp6j #SierraLeone #AbortionRights #ReproductiveHealth #SafeMotherhood #WomensRights
Special Issue highlight
‘Rewiring of master transcription factor cistromes during high-grade serous ovarian cancer development’
Read this ‘Fundamental’ study and more in our #ReproductiveHealth Special Issue!
https://elifesciences.org/articles/86360?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
Reproductive counseling talk line is in danger of closing! All-Options needs donations to continue offering free support to anyone considering pregnancy, parenting, abortion, or adoption. Share widely!
https://www.all-options.org/letter-from-the-interim-executive-director/
Emotional support is huge during these decisions, and hard to find (I know I don't have the spoons to do that for people)... This is a really important provider!
EU #GlobalHealth Policy Forum, Brussels | 15 May
#EU Global Health Strategy
Global health #financing
#HealthEmergency prevention, preparedness
#LocalManufacturing in partner countries
#Sexual #ReproductiveHealth and Rights
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Global Health Policy Forum
Special Issue highlight
‘Rewiring of master transcription factor cistromes during high-grade serous ovarian cancer development’
Read this ‘Fundamental’ study and more in our #ReproductiveHealth Special Issue!
https://elifesciences.org/articles/86360?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
The deletions began shortly after #Trump took office. #CDC web pages on #vaccines, #HIV prevention, & #ReproductiveHealth went missing. Findings on #BirdFlu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The #Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned w/o certain directories of geographic info. The #DOJ expunged the #Jan6th #insurrection from its site, & whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the #Constitution.
#DigitalBookBurning
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
Glyphosate poses risks to female fertility and reproductive health, study says https://www.byteseu.com/832315/ #Cancer #endometriosis #EPA #glyphosate #Health #herbicides #hormones #Infertility #ovaries #pcos #pregnancy #PrimaryArticle #ReproductiveHealth #Science #uterus #weedkiller
“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023
[Of course, this has been going on for much longer than a year and half.]
Hey men who enjoy sex! MASK UP TO KEEP IT UP!
If taking a soccer ball to the crotch had 1/5 odds of long term erectile dysfunction (ED) would you wear a cup when you play soccer?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-88904-6
20% of men in this study got NEW ED - and only 1/4 "got their mojo back" after two years.
@erosalie and part 2 looked at Weldon's scary record on #ReproductiveHealth, #abortion, and end-of-life issues. https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2025/03/11/cdc-pick-dave-weldons-views-on-reproduction-and-end-of-life-raise-alarm/