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News Articles: Women's Health

The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn.

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  • National

Trump administration asks court to toss suit restricting access to abortion drug

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.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The Department of Health and Humans Services changed course and will continue funding for the Women's Health Initiative.

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  • Health

In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study

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.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Federal funding to support collection of new research data for the Women's Health Initiative will end in September 2025.

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  • Health

Funding cut for landmark study of women's health

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.

April 23, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
"It takes philanthropy in concert with civil society and government — massive government funding — to change things ... " says Melinda French Gates. "Philanthropy cannot do it on its own."

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  • Author Interviews

Melinda French Gates on what billionaires with 'absurd' wealth owe back to society

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.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
State troopers helped keep order during protests at the state capitol last summer.

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  • Health

Political climate linked with Georgia women’s mental health outcomes, Emory study finds

A study published in Social Science and Medicine in January examined some of the potential mental health effects related to the current political climate.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Allen Siegler
A student has his meal during the kick off of President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious free meal program to feed children and pregnant women nationwide — despite critics saying that its required logistics could hurt Indonesia's state finances and economy — at an elementary school in Depok, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.

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  • Asia

Indonesia launches free meals program to fight stunting

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.

January 06, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Melinda French Gates, billionaire philanthropist and founder of Pivotal, in Paris in 2021. Since leaving the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation earlier this year, French Gates has committed $1 billion towards women and girls.

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  • Business

Only 2% of charitable giving goes to women. Can Melinda French Gates change that?

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.

October 09, 2024
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  • Maria Aspan
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  • News

GPB evening headlines for August 19, 2022

A report from an organization that advocates for equity in health care ranks Georgia among the worst states for women’s health.

John Lewis statue in Decatur to be unveiled Saturday.

Terrapin Brewing Company is being sold.

August 19, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Like the gut, microbes are important for a healthy vaginal ecosystem.

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  • Science

A microbiome transplant could help people with bacterial vaginosis

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?

Have a human body question? Email us at shortwave@npr.org.

May 29, 2024
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By:
  • Emily Kwong,
  • Berly McCoy,
  • and 1 more
Earlier this year, Virginia designated July as Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month.

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  • Science

Up to 80 percent of women will have a uterine fibroid by age 50

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.

Curious about other health issues? Email us at shortwave@npr.org.

May 22, 2024
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By:
  • Berly McCoy,
  • Emily Kwong,
  • and 1 more
Maria E. Garay-Serratos holds a framed photograph of her mother, who died after suffering decades of domestic violence. Scientists are trying to understand how domestic violence damages the brain.

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  • News

Domestic violence may leave telltale damage in the brain. Scientists want to find it

Traumatic brain injuries from intimate partner violence are common, and potentially more severe than those seen in sports.

March 08, 2024
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
First lady Dr. Jill Biden speaks at the Georgia Aquarium on Feb. 7, 2024 for the annual Morehouse School of Medicine Women with Heart luncheon.

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  • News

Women's health 'shouldn't be an afterthought,' first lady Jill Biden says during Atlanta visit

First lady Jill Biden visited Atlanta on Wednesday to talk about women’s health. She spoke with local advocates, researchers and investors.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
A woman with a rolling piece of luggage outside an airport

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  • Health

More ‘navigators’ are helping women travel to have abortions

A growing network of workers is helping people seeking abortions understand what’s legal, where they can travel for care, and how to get there.

February 02, 2024
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  • KFF Health News

Tagged as: 

  • Health

Rural Georgia gets more contraceptive options through expanded delivery of birth control implants

The Georgia Department of Public Health is kicking off its Power of Family Planning program, an initiative that aims to reduce unintended or complicated pregnancies. And women in rural Georgia stand to benefit the most. 

August 14, 2023
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By:
  • Aaleah McConnell
Maternal death rates have been consistently highest among Black women. But they are also rising among other racial groups.

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  • National

U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk

The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.

July 06, 2023
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  • Pien Huang and
  • Jane Greenhalgh
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