Over at Vice yesterday, Rachael Sigee has an article that is worth a look: When Domestic Abuse Destroys Your Childbirth Plan. The subtitle? “Over a third of domestic violence gets worse or starts during pregnancy. Two women break down what … Continue reading
The American Medical Association is intervening in the rapid increase of state legal restrictions on abortion for the first time, according to an article published in TIME magazine this morning. The American Medical Association is suing North Dakota to block … Continue reading
In the US, a crisis has arisen due to government handling of much larger than usual numbers of asylum-seeking migrants at the southern border. Most are coming not from Mexico but through Mexico from other Central American and South American … Continue reading
As the second largest Ebola outbreak rages on in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization warns that large-scale outbreaks of deadly diseases like Ebola may be the new normal. The Democratic Republic of Congo has seen over … Continue reading
Merette Khalil, an Egyptian doula, has spoken out regarding an epidemic of obstetric violence in Egypt’s maternal health system. Khalil cites existing scientific literature which describes obstetric violence as ranging “from the denial of the comfort of a companion of … Continue reading
Big changes to the World Health Organization’s global manual of diagnoses will no longer classify transgender health issues as mental and behavioral disorders. The new version instead discusses issues of “gender incongruence” in a chapter on sexual health. Photo courtesy … Continue reading
After using computer modeling to predict how many cases could occur, Italian researchers from the Bruno Kessler Foundation and Bocconi University believe that voluntary vaccination programs will not be sufficient to contain outbreaks in the years to come. Concerns were … Continue reading
A recent large scale analysis of worldwide population data suggests sex-selective abortions have led to at least 23 million fewer girls being born, mainly in China and India. Sons are valued over daughters in many societies, for both social and … Continue reading
Sally Cheshire, the chairwoman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), a UK fertility watchdog group, has warned that private IVF clinics are using “selective success rates” to target older women. While the chances of successfully conceiving with IVF … Continue reading
A baby boy has been born in Greece as the result of an experimental form of in-vitro fertilization that uses an egg from the mother, sperm from the father, and another egg from a donor woman. The mitochondria–the small compartments … Continue reading
A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Human Rights Watch suggests Venezuela is in the midst of a major health emergency. While the crisis began two years after the economic crisis in 2010, it … Continue reading
We recently shared an IJFAB Blog guest blog by Heather Stewart and Lauren Freeman on microaggressions facing transgender folks seeking medical care. In this blog, Heather Stewart focuses on microaggressions facing bisexual persons in medical contexts. Stewart addresses numerous features … Continue reading