Bonnie Discepolo participated in an clinical trial examining possibly delaying menopause to improve health outcomes. She hopes it gives women more agency.
Earlier this year, Columbia University Irving Medical Center launched a new graduate medical education (GME) initiative designed to develop expertise in climate change and healthcare sustainability
In the past five years or so, it’s become something of a burgeoning wellness trend for women of reproductive age to question, or even outright quit, hormonal birth control.
Analysis of data from three high-income countries on births among women who previously had a stillbirth found the length of time between the two pregnancies was not an important factor.
IUDs are not a new form of birth control, but they have seen a wild resurgence in popularity in the past few years. A record 4.4 million women now have IUDs.
Zev Williams, MD, PhD recently co-authored a study published in the Journal of Fertility and Sterility examining the effects of insulin on placenta cells from first-trimester pregnancies.
Doctors diagnosed the intense abdominal cramping that hit Sharon Rosenblatt every month as kidney stones, a muscle pull, or the result of too much exercise.
Brittney Crystal was just over 25 weeks pregnant when her water broke. It was her second pregnancy — the first had been rough, and the baby came early.
Let’s talk about how birth control works. Dr. Ana Cepin, an obstetrician-gynecologist at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, breaks it down for us.
Park Slope, Brooklyn, mom Justine Simonson is grateful she had a doula by her side during her pregnancy, in the delivery room and postpartum. Her daughter Katja is now 7 weeks old.
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. women of reproductive age are currently using contraception. The most common methods used are female sterilization, oral contraception, and IUDs.