President Joe Biden discussed several healthcare concerns during his State of the Union address, including reproductive rights, prescription drug costs, the Affordable Care Act and women's health research.
Providers have an ethical imperative to facilitate a truly informed choice for parents and donors, which means educating them about the facts around anonymous donation, the potential needs of their donor-conceived child, and the importance of choosing programs that dedicate time and effort toward obtaining updated medical information.
Representatives from the Guttmacher Institute and NFPRHA shared their wins and losses for reproductive health in 2023. Their wins include states moving to protect contraception and the approval of Opill, while their losses include state enactments of abortion bans and the lack of funding for Title X.
New York City-based Hey Jane, a virtual abortion provider, announced last week that it is now offering vaginal infections treatment. This includes treatment for urinary tract infections, bacterial vaginosis and herpes. It is also offering birth control and emergency contraception.
Health insurers can support the fight for reproductive health rights by improving their benefits and using their power to enact change with lawmakers, said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She made these comments at the AHIP 2023 conference in Portland.
Under the proposed new rule, employers are no longer able to be exempt from covering contraception due to moral convictions, but religious exemptions still remain. It's an important move from the government during the reproductive health crisis, one advocate said.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Tia — a startup providing hybrid primary care, OB/GYN services and mental health care to women — is now partnered with Cedars-Sinai in addition to UCSF Health and CommonSpirit Health. Under Tia's partnership model, the company combines its primary care with health systems' specialty care to reduce fragmentation and advance preventive health.
Dr. B began as a virtual service providing access to Covid-19 vaccines and later Covid-19 treatments. It has now expanded to treatments for dermatology, sexual health, reproductive health and primary care.
Women’s health has been historically underfunded — in terms of both research dollars and venture capital investment. Lawmakers can’t craft effective policy nor can startups innovate in the women’s health space without good data and research, said panelists at a recent healthcare conference in Washington, D.C.
Following the Dobbs decision, it's vital for employers to support their employees' reproductive rights, executives from Planned Parenthood and Maven Clinic stressed at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Kochava allegedly sold geolocation data from hundreds of millions of cell phones that showed people’s visits to reproductive health clinics, places of worship, homeless and domestic violence shelters and addiction recovery facilities.
The team behind the World Without Disease Accelerator, part of Janssen Research & Development, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, is embracing an ambitious paradigm focused on disease prevention, interception and cure.
Some ethicists and advocates say it represents a double standard, citing evidence that female contraception also may be related to depression and other side effects. They argue men are being protected from the same unpleasant consequences that women are forced to accept.
A new mobile health company made its debut at TechCrunch’s Disrupt NY conference this week and unveiled its fertility tracker apps. Welltwigs is led by biomedical engineer Murtaza Lakdawala. A TechCrunch article noted that the company developed a pair of apps using sensors. Thermotwig assesses basal body temperature and Labtwig detects the presence of certain […]
Fertility app developer Glow turned its attention to men with a new app section that confronts issues relevant to this audience. But will it lead to more men taking an active role in addressing this sensitive issue? The smartphone app helps users log daily activities and lifestyle information, then analyzes the data to give men […]
