ICYMI news for women

No TL;DR. Just the facts, ma'am. 53 news stories that matter to women.

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 a few days later for all readers. 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 and paid endorsements. If you find this valuable, please consider buying us a much needed coffee, or definitely better yet, a paid subscription to support what we do … we do it for you!

In the news this week for women: Health grants finally free up? Planned Parenthood takes another hit, but so do pregnancy crisis centers. Abortion bans keep negatively impacting women’s health access, costs, but virtual care is quietly providing the alternative. RFK Jr. makes it harder to enroll in ACA, replaces professional panel with amateurs and anti-vaxers; and wants to wire your body to the government ... what could possibly go wrong? Half the population has periods; maybe we could actually talk about it? Body fat measurement beats old BMI; nutrition: plants, plants and more plants recommended. Joint pain causes and gut health drinks; rosaries as meditation? More severe PMS with ADHD; car wreck test dummies made for men (surprise—not). Advances in preterm birth and preeclampsia. NY demos Dem generational rift; Congressional Dems reintroduce (doomed?) Women’s Health Protection Act. Budget bill risk for older adults; could women’s health possibly be more than uteruses, breasts and hormones? Mark Cuban says we should invest in women’s health, so here’s the latest on FemTech … and much, much more.

Don’t forget to catch up on this week’s DC SNAFU chaos: major SCOTUS opinions, how one women brought sanity back to Congressional budget bill overreach, and the anti-vax gypsies in the HHS palace.¹