On this episode of Lawmakers: Spotlight, host Donna Lowry talks with Rep. Beth Camp and Rep. Shea Roberts about women’s health policy at the Georgia Capitol, including hormone replacement therapy coverage, pharmacist-prescribed contraception, and abortion law. We hear how lawmakers describe access challenges, medical decision-making, and what these debates could mean for you and your community.
A new Atlanta mural dedicated to two Georgia mothers who died from pregnancy-related complications is a focal point as advocates and lawmakers reflect on the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision.
The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion medication mifepristone.
The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.
The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.
In a new memoir, French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and her ongoing philanthropic work, directing funds and attention to women's health initiatives.
A study published in Social Science and Medicine in January examined some of the potential mental health effects related to the current political climate.
Indonesia's new government started an ambitious project to feed nearly 90 million children and pregnant women to fight malnutrition and stunting, as critics question whether the program is affordable.
The philanthropist is spending $1 billion — and leveraging her ever-growing celebrity — to call more attention to the systemic problems facing women and girls. Now she's focusing even more on women's health.
Humans rely on our symbiotic relationship with good microbes—in the gut, the skin and ... the vagina. Fatima Aysha Hussain studies what makes a healthy vaginal microbiome. She talks to host Emily Kwong about her long-term transplant study that asks the question: Can one vagina help another through a microbe donation?
Fibroids are benign uterine tumors. So why does it matter that the majority of people with a uterus will have one before they are 50 years old? Physician Rachell Bervell, founder of the Black OBGYN Project, explains that when symptoms arise, they can be quite serious — from extreme menstrual bleeding to fertility problems. Plus, why they're very likely to affect you or a loved one.
