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Ring risks: Separating hype from fact
Lately the ring has been making headlines —and some of the stories the articles tell are downright scary. Vanity Fair ‘s piece , titled “Why Is Potentially Lethal Contraceptive NuvaRing Still on the Market?”, asks: “Would a young woman use NuvaRing … if she knew that … there was a 56 percent increased risk of […]
Emergency contraception: Why the weight?
A French company that makes an emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) called Norlevo caught headlines recently for adding a new warning to their package : “Studies suggest that Norlevo is less effective in women weighing 75 kg [165 lbs] or more, and not effective in women weighing 80 kg [176 lbs] or more.” What does this […]
Bisexual or questioning? Don’t skip the birth control
Being a woman who sleeps with other women doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t need to think about birth control. In fact, a new study shows that birth control may be especially important for bisexual women and women who identify as straight but have had female partners (we’ll be saying WSW—women who have sex with women—for […]
Don’t give up on the Health Insurance Marketplace!
UPDATE: President Biden has opened the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for 2022. You can now enroll in one of these plans until January 15, 2022, at healthcare.gov . Some states have their own open enrollment periods and websites for signing up. Check to see if your state does . […]
Better health services = better sexual health for students
New research from Minnesota showed that schools with more health services had students with healthier sex lives . Over 6,300 students from 28 Minnesota colleges were in the study. All the students were 18-24 years old, unmarried, had had sex in the last year, and attended a 2- or 4-year college. The study took into […]
Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace!
UPDATE: President Biden has opened the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for 2022. You can now enroll in one of these plans until January 15, 2022, at healthcare.gov . Some states have their own open enrollment periods and websites for signing up. Check to see if your state does . […]
Infertility is going down among U.S. women
The National Survey on Family Growth (NSFG) collects all kinds of information on U.S. women, including what kind of birth control they use. It also asks women and men about their experiences with infertility . For men, it asks whether they might have difficulty fathering a child. For women, the survey defines infertility as 12 […]
There’s no place like home (to GYT)
We admit it—getting to your health care provider once a year can be tough, especially when juggling work, school, social and love lives. But that’s the current recommendation for sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing: once a year for all sexually active women under age 26. But what if you could GYT for two of the […]
Can the pill protect you from ovarian cancer?
First, the bad news: About 12 in 100,000 U.S. women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year, making it the eighth most common cancer in women. Yet ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of women’s cancer death’s because it has few early symptoms and is often caught after it’s more difficult to treat. But […]
It’s official: the HPV vaccine is making a difference
In an article last year , we said it was still too soon to tell whether Gardasil, a vaccine that protects against 4 common strains of HPV (human papillomavirus), would make a difference in HPV rates on a large scale. Just a year later, a new study has shown that among 14- to 19-year-old women, […]
