ICYMI news for women - Oct. 5

No TL;DR. Just the facts, ma'am. Dozens of new articles in the last week alone that matter to women. Click your picks, ignore the bricks: we watch the news so you don't have to.

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In the news this week for women: We lost Jane Goodall at a time we needed her wonderful heart more than ever. Shutdown update and why healthcare might just win this one (no, it’s not about immigrants); the latest reason women need to never get sick in Alabama; can wearables bridge a 50-year gap in women’s health research? Does breast surgery reflect what men want more than what women need? Olive oil and breast cancer; is magnesium a potent secret add for women? The woman you never heard of who discovered GLP-1. <sigh> Is the GOP’s message to Gen Z to pay double for health insurance or go without? Major retailer to offer discounted Ozempic, Wegovy as pharm price wars heat up. Trump Rx: all sizzle, no steak says WSJ. Unforced errors: telehealth abruptly ends and more uninformed misadventures from Congress and administration. Women and autism; was questionable Tylenol pronouncement entangled in ableism, eugenics, pronatalism and yet another Catch 22 mentality blaming women? How Trump’s tariffs will affect med costs. The myth of women having it all; chest pounding from Hegseth; femtech news and much more.

And last week’s Other News Quiz? That was my girl Grazer, the only working mom to twice win the only contest I know of that cheerily promotes chunkiness and winter preppers. She lost this year to 1100-pound Chunk, the dastardly bastard who killed her baby last year. More on this annual saga of fatness, love, triumph and loss in Alaska.