Tag Archive for: women’s health

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is poised to consider whether to restrict access to the abortion pill as President Joe Biden’s administration fights to maintain broad access to the medication in a major case that thrusts reproductive rights back on the agenda of the justices in a presidential election year.

Biden is also ordering his administration to report on progress they are making to erase gender gaps in research and to study how to use artificial intelligence to improve women’s health research, according to an administration document summarizing the order.

An unmet need in the contraceptive field is availability and access for patients. Almost half of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the United States annually are unintended, so the approval of Opill to be sold over the counter without a prescription allows increased accessibility, promoting timely use and reducing barriers to family planning, according to GlobalData.

Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, or GLP-1s, is skyrocketing in the United States, with more than nine million prescriptions for Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and similar diabetes and obesity drugs written during the last three months of 2022 alone. Zepbound weekly prescriptions hit 25,000 in December 2023, just one month after it was approved to treat obesity. These drugs may make oral birth control pills less effective at certain points in the dosing schedule, making an unintended pregnancy more likely.

Walgreens said it expected to begin dispensing the pills within a week, in select locations in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois. CVS will begin filling prescriptions for the medication in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the weeks ahead and expand to additional states, where allowed by law, on a rolling basis.

PERIOD., a global youth-powered non-profit, launched the typeface, Sans Period, to provide crucial period education for kids who may no longer get it in school.

Astellas is returning to the Super Bowl to help educate game viewers about VEOZAH and vasomotor symptoms (VMS), the most commonly reported menopause symptoms. The “Fewer Hot Flashes, More Not Flashes” ad features women experiencing common moderate to severe hot flash and night sweat moments that impact their daily lives.

The current unmet needs in the female contraceptives market are similar to those that were present 10 years ago, according to GlobalData.

The company said the drug eased hot flashes and improved sleep in two late-stage trials, much-needed good news for the German group’s pharmaceuticals unit that is reeling from a recent development setback.

A newer wave of lawsuits has focused on when emergency medical exceptions to abortion bans apply and whether states can stop their citizens from traveling to states where abortion remains legal—a trend experts expect to continue in the new year.