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A 27-Year-Old Arrived with Abdominal Pain, and Doctors Found a Calcified Fetus Beside Her Living Pregnancy
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (866+ words) A 27-year-old woman walked into an emergency department with six hours of abdominal pain and vomiting. She was 12 weeks pregnant. The ultrasound found her fetus alive and developing normally. It also found a second fetus, several inches away, outside her…...
Pentagon Will Reimburse Egg Freezing Up to $10,000 a Year but Caps Sperm Storage at Only $500
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (678+ words) The Defense Department will begin reimbursing eligible service members for freezing and storing eggs or sperm under a three-year pilot program starting September 14, according to a notice published in the Federal Register. Reimbursement is capped at $10,000 a year for egg…...
A Five Year Research Record on COVID Vaccines and Miscarriage Is Back in Dispute on Capitol Hill
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (877+ words) The claim returned after Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul released documents about federal pandemic communications, and Johnson repeated the figure publicly. PolitiFact and FactCheck.org both traced the number back to the same miscalculation. For anyone who is pregnant,…...
Expectant Parents Have Two Ways to Shield a Newborn from RSV Before the Season Opens in the Fall
1+ week, 1+ day ago (680+ words) The seasonal window for respiratory syncytial virus protection opens next month, which turns an abstract choice into a scheduling decision for any household expecting a baby this fall. RSV is the leading cause of infant hospitalization in the United States....
Psychiatry Review Urges Treating Depression in Pregnancy, Finding Little Evidence of Serious Harm from SSRIs
1+ week, 2+ day ago (913+ words) A review in JAMA Psychiatry argues that treating major depressive disorder during pregnancy should be prioritized, concluding that when the effects of medication are separated from those of depression and its consequences, accumulated evidence suggests selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors carry…...
Her Emergency Cesarean Went Smoothly Until the Breathing Tube Came Out
1+ week, 2+ day ago (581+ words) The operation itself was unremarkable. A 41-year-old woman with gestational diabetes needed an emergency cesarean section. The surgery was completed, the anesthesia was reversed, and the breathing tube came out. Within minutes, she was in acute respiratory distress and complaining…...
Only One GLP-1 Drug Carries a Birth Control Warning, and the Class Is Not Interchangeable
1+ week, 3+ day ago (955+ words) Women taking GLP-1 medications alongside oral contraceptives have been warned that they may face a higher chance of unintended pregnancy. The reality is narrower and more specific than most coverage suggests: one drug in the class carries a formal labeled…...
Hospitals in More Than Two Dozen States Now Send New Mothers Home Wearing a Wristband That Says "I Gave Birth"
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1063+ words) The tool at the center of a growing national maternal health effort costs almost nothing and contains no technology. It is a silicone wristband stamped with the words "I Gave Birth." Hospitals hand it to patients at discharge and ask…...
Medicaid Now Covers Doula Support in More Than Half of States, and Finding One Is Still Hard
1+ week, 5+ day ago (819+ words) More than half of states now pay for doula support through Medicaid. Pregnant people covered by Medicaid in those states still frequently cannot find a doula who takes it. That gap between a benefit existing on paper and a benefit…...
Federal Grant Cuts End Funding for Dozens of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
1+ week, 6+ day ago (719+ words) The Department of Health and Human Services canceled 53 grants under the federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in late June, ending roughly $68 million in funding two years before the awards were scheduled to expire. According to a list obtained by NPR,…...