Two Georgia deaths are tied to abortion restrictions. Experts say abortion pills they took are safe
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to speak about abortion Friday in Georgia, where two women’...
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More women had their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned
More women chose to have their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, a new study show...
America is trying to fix its maternal mortality crisis with federal, state and local programs
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — At the site of a race massacre that reduced neighborhoods to ashes a century ago...
Takeaways from AP’s report on what the US can learn from other nations about maternal deaths
How can the U.S. solve its growing maternal mortality crisis? Health experts say one way is to look ...
Europe offers clues for solving America’s maternal mortality crisis
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Midwife Jennie Joseph touched Husna Mixon’s pregnant belly, turned to the 7-yea...
More women are ending pregnancies on their own, a new study suggests. Some resort to unsafe methods
A growing number of women said they’ve tried to end their pregnancies on their own by doing things l...
Gene therapy may cure rare diseases. But drugmakers have few incentives, leaving families desperate
Robin Alderman faces an agonizing reality: Gene therapy might cure her son Camden’s rare, inherited ...
Takeaways from AP’s report on access to gene therapies for rare diseases
The promise of gene therapy looms large for families dealing with rare, genetic disorders. Such trea...
A court ruled embryos are children. These Christian couples agree yet wrestle with IVF choices
When faced with infertility, Amanda and Jeff Walker had a baby through in vitro fertilization but we...
Survey finds 8,000 women a month got abortion pills despite their states’ bans or restrictions
Though their states severely restrict abortion or place limits on having one through telehealth, abo...
States with abortion bans saw greater drops in medical school graduates applying for residencies
Fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more strikin...
After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as ‘the underground’
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion afterca...
Arizona’s abortion ban is likely to cause a scramble for services in states where it’s still legal
Adrienne Mansanares expects a flurry of calls from patients in Arizona starting this week. She’s the...
How brown rats crawled off ships and conquered North American cities
Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled ...
Mifepristone access is coming before the US Supreme Court. How safe is this abortion pill?
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepri...
More than six in 10 US abortions in 2023 were done by medication — a significant jump since 2020
More than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication, up...
As threat to IVF looms in Alabama, patients over 35 or with serious diseases worry for their futures
Thirty-seven-year-old Corinn O’Brien is about two months pregnant through in vitro fertilization, bu...
Scientists have used cells from fluid drawn during pregnancy to grow mini lungs and other organs
Scientists have created miniorgans from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the wo...
How an Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos are children could affect IVF
The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state ...
A pacemaker for the brain helped a woman with crippling depression. It may soon offer hope to others
NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Hollenbeck lived with a deep, recurring depression she likened to a black hole...
Post-Roe v. Wade, more patients rely on early prenatal testing as states toughen abortion laws
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Utah, more of Dr. Cara Heuser’s maternal-fetal medicine patients are requesting...
Studies cited in case over abortion pill are retracted due to flaws and conflicts of interest
A medical journal has retracted two studies claiming to show the harms of the abortion pill mifepris...
Experimental gene therapy allows kids with inherited deafness to hear
Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear. A small study publis...
US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions
Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, w...
Promising new gene therapies for sickle cell are out of reach in countries where they’re needed most
Gautam Dongre’s two children in India and Pascazia Mazeze’s son in Tanzania live with an inherited b...
Abortion delays have grown more common in the US since Roe v. Wade was overturned
A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding...
Meat made from cells, not livestock, is here. But will it ever replace traditional meat?
A familiar aroma wafted through the Believer Meats test kitchen earlier this year as Research and De...
A new cure for sickle cell disease may be coming. Health advisers will review it next week
The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may ...
People of African ancestry are poorly represented in genetic studies. A new effort would change that
Scientists are setting out to collect genetic material from 500,000 people of African ancestry to cr...
Stem cells from one eye show promise in healing injuries in the other
Phil Durst recalled clawing at his face after a chemical from a commercial dishwashing machine squir...