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Vague ‘medical emergency’ exceptions in abortion laws leave pregnant people in danger, doctors say

20.05.2022

Kaitlyn was near the beginning of her second trimester last October when she boarded a plane from Texas to Kansas. On her return home a few days later, she was …

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Surgeons navigating their pregnancies see a bleak picture getting a bit brighter

06.05.2022

When a surgeon asked Sharona Ben-Haim during a 2008 interview for a neurosurgery residency program whether she planned to have children, she responded the only way she felt she could: …

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Health Tech

Telemedicine abortion providers prepare for surges in states where the procedure will remain legal

05.05.2022

Federal protections around abortion will leap back half a century if the Supreme Court repeals Roe v. Wade, as a leaked draft opinion suggests it will. The reality of how …

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Coronavirus / Health

‘Lives could be at stake’: CDC’s Walensky warns of dire stakes surrounding abortion access

05.05.2022

A lack of access to legal abortion services could directly lead to American deaths, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued Wednesday.  “Women who are interested …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Expedited partner therapy is an effective way to treat sexually transmitted infections. Why aren’t doctors using it?

25.04.2022

As emergency medicine and infectious disease physicians, we often see patients with chlamydia, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Diagnosing and treating these diseases is generally straightforward. What isn’t …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Devastating separations continue for families seeking asylum, with dire health consequences

14.04.2022

Maria was 37 weeks pregnant — at full term — when Customs and Border Protection officers separated her from her husband, Alejandro, after they arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border seeking …

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Health Tech

In a defamation lawsuit, the hype around digital health clashes with scientific criticism

02.03.2022

A retraction often marks the end of a dispute over published scientific research. But in the case of a $300 digital fertility tracker marketed by Valley Electronics, it was only …

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First Opinion

Opinion: The FDA needs to take another look at laser-based ‘vaginal rejuvenation’

22.02.2022

Laser procedures promising “vaginal rejuvenation” are being promoted to women in advertisements online, in spa windows, and even in some doctors’ offices. If my patient group is any guide, women …

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In the Lab

Most advanced lab-grown human embryos prompt a pressing question: Are they getting too real?

02.12.2021

The stem cells were no more than a week old when scientists moved them from their slick-walled plastic wells into ones lined with a thin layer of human endometrial tissue. …

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