more than 50% increase

🚨 New data drops tomorrow in our women’s health funding cuts tracker, and it is worse than expected.

Cuts to women’s health research have jumped over 50% since we last updated in early April. And they hit everything from UTI treatment during pregnancy to research on how uterine fibroids develop.

• Until Women’s Health Is Everywhere, Women’s Health Is Nowhere // JAMA Health Forum
   
• The Real Fertility Crisis? Financial Security, a U.N. Report Says. // New York Times
   
• HHS justifies decision to stop recommending Covid shots during pregnancy with studies supporting the shots’ safety // Politico
   
• Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel // Stat
   
• Fundamental Change in Understanding of Postpartum Sleep // Medscape
   
• RFK Jr. picks new members of influential vaccine committee after purge // Washington Post
   
• Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About Your Mitochondria // The Atlantic
   
• Patient Navigation Services for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening and Follow-Up // JAMA Internal Medicine
   
• Why Was I Ashamed of the Bulge in My Vagina? // The Cut
   
• Alcohol-associated liver disease mortality // JAMA Network Ope