The Promise and Peril of Vaginal “Rejuvenation”
champja/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Erika Sherek was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, she knew the road to recovery would be long and painful. Surgery and radiation therapy saved her life, but the treatment fundamentally changed her body. Because she stopped producing estrogen, the female sex…
Opioid Addiction Among Pregnant Women Has Quadrupled
ozgurdonmaz/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Vermont, 1 in every 20 pregnant women is addicted to opioids when she gives birth. That’s one of several striking stats from a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that finds that opioid addiction among new moms across the…
Argentina’s Senate Votes to Reject Legal Abortion
Supporters of legal abortion comfort each other after senators rejected the bill.Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a highly anticipated vote, Argentinian senators early Thursday rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion for pregnancies no further along than 14 weeks. The vote, which followed 16 hours of…
The Shadow Rulers of the VA
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter before signing an executive order at the Department of Veterans Affairs.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received…
Steve Cohen Is Spending Millions to Help Veterans. Why Are People Angry?
Steve Cohen’s network of clinics have thrust him into the spotlight over privatizing the VA. William Deshazer/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and Fortune. At a House hearing last year on post-traumatic stress disorder, a private organization showed up with an ambitious…
Inside the Surprisingly Difficult Fight for Reproductive Rights in One of the Bluest States
Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Edith Ajello, now a 13-term lawmaker in Rhode Island’s General Assembly, became pregnant in 1965, she was a college student in central Pennsylvania and abortion was illegal. It was eight years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in Roe v. Wade,…