Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The rules impose new ...

The female reproductive system is the internal and external organs involved in fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth in people assigned female at birth. This group of organs is responsible ...

A new study provides the first evidence of a direct interaction between kisspeptins, proteins crucial for sexual development, and astrocytes, non-neuronal cells of the nervous system, blazing new ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday took action to set up a vote on the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act, which would reestablish a national right to an abortion before the third ...

On April 22, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Final Rule titled HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support ...

Reproductive rights advocates in southern states are embroiled in a fight against severe restrictions on abortion access and a flurry of state-level GOP efforts to create more of them. They say ...

Pregnancy-related mortality rates among Black women are over three and two times higher, respectively, compared to the rate for White women. Post-Roe v. Wade Black women in Southern states face ...

Planned Parenthood Generation Action at Missouri State University is one of campus’s newest organizations and is already making an impact. Missouri State’s chapter, founded this past January, focuses ...