Nearly one in three U.S. children will contract CMV by age 5, but doctors often do not counsel patients on it or routinely screen newborns for it.
The report from the Guttmacher Institute comes just as the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Addressing the shortages means overcoming not just disregard for people’s needs, but also the discomfort many Americans feel discussing menstruation and other issues affecting women and marginalized groups.
Sen. Maggie Hassan sent a letter to tampon manufacturers Monday seeking answers after reports of empty shelves started circulating last week. She wants tampons to be treated as an essential good.
The state's proposal would disproportionately affect low-income trans people — and for some Florida families, accessing gender-affirming care under Medicaid was already impossible.
The agency makes it more clear that parents qualify for reimbursement if they need breast pumps and other resources to keep their babies fed.
Colorado has banned anonymous sperm and egg donation as well as regulated the number of families a single donor can be used to create. Donor-conceived activist Erin Jackson says this is only the start.
Different state definitions of personhood, designed with abortion in mind, may have legal ramifications for fertility treatment and embryos
About 126,000 families may benefit from this expansion, which health officials hope will reduce the number of pregnancy-related deaths.
Contraceptive restrictions would almost certainly face legal challenges. But the Supreme Court has already laid the groundwork for states to restrict access.