Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn (R) told reporters Wednesday it is his “personal belief” that if a 12-year-old girl is a victim of incest she should still be made to carry a resulting pregnancy to term. “I believe that life begins at conception and every life is valuable. Those are my personal beliefs,” Gunn said. A reporter then asked, “So […]
The “abortion pill” is a bit of a misnomer. Known formally as medical or medication abortion, it is really two separate drugs—mifepristone, which stops the pregnancy from progressing, followed by misoprostol, which triggers uterus contractions—that together mimic what happens in a miscarriage. And so, in the early days of at-home medication abortion in the 1990s in the U.K. and Sweden, […]
“Technology is only as good as the impact it has on both patients and clinicians,” said Chris Altchek, founder and CEO of remote patient monitoring company Cadence. Cadence built its platform based on this idea. The startup, headquartered in New York, seeks to eliminate the burden physicians face due to the huge volume of data collected by RPM technology. Since […]
With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. One fear is that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people seeking ways to end unwanted pregnancies. […]
LGBTQ healthcare organization Howard Brown Health (Chicago) is planning a replacement clinic in Chicago. The new five-story 91,000-square-foot project will include clinical and administrative spaces, a rooftop terrace, and underground parking. Retail is planned for the first floor. The project team comprises Eckenhoff Saunders (Chicago; architect), McHugh Construction (Chicago; general contractor), and Inland National Development Company (developer; Oak Brook, Ill). […]
June 29, 2022 Since last week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, one state after another has outlawed abortion. Illinois is one of the few states in the middle of the country where people can still legally access abortion care. In this report co-produced by PBS NewsHour, KHN senior correspondent Sarah Varney traveled from Illinois’ border with Missouri to […]
Two Biden administration officials released a letter on Wednesday calling on teachers to help encourage parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 now that vaccines are available to nearly all children. In a “Dear Colleagues” letter provided to The Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called on the staff for early childhood […]
ReCode Therapeutics was formed around new science potentially enabling delivery of genetic medicines to various organs in the body, and the startup has encouraging data for its therapeutic candidates targeting the lungs. Now the biotech startup has $120 million to show that it can deliver on the technology’s promise in other organs and cell types in the body. The […]
Health Tech By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “Being an unpaid caregiver is the epicenter of Life Sucks Disease,” says Alexandra Drane, Co-Founder & CEO of ARCHANGELS, “but it’s also one of the most glorious, one of the most magnificent jobs we’ll ever have.” So, what’s the trick to managing the “sucky” side of caregiving? Data. Alex’s company ARCHANGELS has invented […]
A two-dose vaccine, Jynneos, is approved for monkeypox in the U.S. The government has many more doses of an older smallpox vaccine — ACAM2000 — that they say could also be used, but that vaccine is considered to have a greater risk of side effects and is not recommended for people who have HIV. So it’s the Jynneos vaccine that […]