ICYMI news for women

No TL;DR. Just the facts, ma'am. Over 110 news stories last week alone that matter to women. Click your picks, ignore the bricks.

Sunday Snippets is a round-up of headlines about women’s health and lives from the past week that we haven’t covered in our regular posts. Snippets is a perk for our terrific paid subscribers, released three days later for all subscribers. It takes time — many hours every week — to search for relevant news, add context and deeper dive links, and get these stories to you without ads. If you find this valuable, please LIKE the post so we know someone’s out there—hellooo?—or consider buying us a much needed coffee (or a timely margarita?), or—definitely better yet—a paid subscription to support what we do. We’re all in on women’s health!

In the news this week for women: 17 surprises about our bodies. Does it matter if your doctor’s a DO? Fibroids and Black women; PCOS; mammograms and heart health risk; insurers taking hit on weight loss drugs; period products—what’s new? Eye openers on protein, ginger, Benadryl, obesity and easy Japanese walking. 11 to the 3rd power: 11 links on pregnancy—everything from sex of the baby to after-clothes and new research; 11 more on midlife and perimenopause, from new apps to simmering anger to the FDA and hormones; and a final 11 for the so-over-that crowd from longevity tips to lowering dementia risk with Shingles vaccine—who knew? Summer flesh-eating bacteria and brain-rotting amoeba coming soon to a lake/pool near you? TV: boys are doers, girls are passive. <sigh> TikTok and teen skin, kids and nicotine lip pillows, and FDA OKs Juul e-cigs…really. Details of the health trainwreck from the OBBBA. 8 articles on mental health and 12 new updates on what RFK-not is up to, including zooming in on a sloppy mifepristone analysis and the nutritional hilarity of his push on…wait for it…Coca-Cola and ice cream. Speaking of which, is Mexican Coca-Cola better than US? See the taste test here. The latest on Femtech and much, much more. Brand new: several optional policy and data deep dives.