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reproductive health

STAT news on reproductive health, including abortion, contraception and fertility. Topics listed here include the legal and medical landscape of reproductive rights, the latest advances in reproductive technology, and the stories of people who have been affected by reproductive health issues.

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Health Annalisa Merelli

Measuring the long-term cost of restricting abortion access

Health Eric Boodman

The ‘abortion queen’ wants patients to have ‘skin in the game.’ Is that restricting access?

Health Matt Stout — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Federal bill would keep addiction medication from triggering a child abuse investigation

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Listen: How two abortion providers grapple with their post-Roe reality

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: As conservative views collide with science, doctors find themselves navigating political landmines

Health Tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Machine learning could help predict risk of preterm birth using wearables data

First Opinion Alison Block

Brain drain, skills loss, and other unintended consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Artificial wombs, after years in development, reach FDA review for human trials

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First Opinion Andrea Ippolito

STAT Plus: Why isn’t there any enforcement of the ACA mandate to support breastfeeding?

Special Report Sadia Rafiquddin

No longer brushed off: A Minnesota clinic tries to rewrite medicine’s approach to miscarriage

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First Opinion Dana Singiser

A roadmap for making over-the-counter birth control affordable

First Opinion Morgan S. Levy, Vineet Arora and Arghavan Salles

Medicine robs physicians of their fertility. Here’s how to fix it

Health Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: A new mom’s illness led to the first diagnosis of a rare condition after childbirth

In the Lab Deborah Balthazar

A new study put period products through the wringer. Discs came out a winner

First Opinion Maria W. Steenland, Rachel E. Fabi and Laura R. Wherry

Many immigrants are ineligible for important U.S. maternal health initiatives

First Opinion Michelle Oberman, Katie Watson and Lisa Lehmann

STAT Plus: Doctors in states that ban abortion can still refer patients elsewhere. Why are so few doing that?

Pharma Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: How the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S. got its ‘unapologetic’ design

Health Annalisa Merelli

A new study shows how Medicaid coverage policies shape maternal health disparities

Health Tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: How telehealth startups are trying to fill the menopause care vacuum

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill

Health Annalisa Merelli

Why maternal mortality is so hard to measure — and why the problem may get worse

Health Katharine Gammon

‘I felt like I was dying’: How women with postpartum depression fall through the cracks of U.S. health care

First Opinion Carole Joffe

OB-GYNs could have solidified abortion as health care after Roe. They missed their chance

Health J. Emory Parker

How abortion access changed in the first year after Roe v. Wade, in 8 charts

Health Ambar Castillo

In absence of Roe v. Wade, an abortion doctor dwells on all the patients she does not see

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Biden directs HHS to boost contraception access, a year after Dobbs decision

First Opinion Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi

The staggering financial burden of giving birth — even with insurance

Health Abdullahi Tsanni

New DNA test aims to make cervical cancer screening more accessible in low-income countries

First Opinion Omare Jimmerson

Pregnancy-related death, like Tori Bowie’s, is a far too common occurrence among Black women