ICYMI news for women

REALLY FINAL UPDATE: No TL;DR. Just the facts, ma'am. More than 80 news stories last week alone that matter to women. Click your picks, ignore the bricks.

Wow - apologies for the massive publishing blips! I fired the editor!!¹ Here’s the correct final version; thanks for your patience!

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: We watch the news so you don’t have to! 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 glass of wine?) 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: Women drinking more with bad results; AHA and women’s heart health; forever chemicals in period products; faster, easier diagnosis of endometriosis; tracking fibroids. Ozempic protects brains, too? Kennedy to fire another “too woke” panel. If a hospital can ignore a life-threatening complication in Serena Williams, it can happen to any woman—unfortunately, particularly to Black women. Are midwives the answer to embarrassing US pregnancy outcomes? Congress may make childbirth free for those who have insurance—never mind the half with no insurance. The problem with vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy; how Trump baby accounts work. New TN law negates medical ethics for pregnancy care. Antidepressants over used as fixall for women for millennia not the best option. Eating disorders not just for the young. The funniest menopause (and right-on) site on the Internet, as menopause continues to have a moment. Is the age cut-off for mammography too early? How about a fix for low sexual desire? Why Southern women aren’t living any longer than a century ago. Habits that sabotage brain health, and one that might help us live longer. Men’s birth control pill may be coming (finally); Uber’s women-only driver program; surviving nanoplastics; and Millennials playing mahjongg—who knew? Penis filler disasters—yikes! And, of course, the new beer bottle that broke the Internet (ER staff: just don’t). The latest on Femtech and much, much more.