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March 1, 2023

Rolling Stone: People Are Getting Pregnant on TikTok’s Trendy ‘On-Demand’ Birth Control

Rolling Stone: People Are Getting Pregnant on TikTok’s Trendy ‘On-Demand’ Birth Control. “But EvoFem Biosciences has mounted an aggressive marketing campaign, presenting Phexxi as a standalone birth control — the Annie Murphy commercial racked up more than 2 billion impressions. And with its popularity on TikTok, where videos tagged #phexxi have a combined 2.3 million views, there is high demand for the product. According to the company, a little more than 100,000 women hold Phexxi prescriptions today in the United States. Yet in crowd-sourced databases and online forums, alongside some rave reviews of Phexxi, are dozens of women reporting pregnancies while using the drug.”

February 16, 2023

Moms’ and babies’ medical data predicts prematurity complications, Stanford Medicine-led study shows (Stanford Medicine)

Stanford Medicine: Moms’ and babies’ medical data predicts prematurity complications, Stanford Medicine-led study shows. “By sifting through electronic health records of moms and babies using a machine-learning algorithm, scientists can predict how at-risk newborns will fare in their first two months of life. The new method allows physicians to classify, at or before birth, which infants are likely to develop complications of prematurity.”

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February 7, 2023

Penn State: New AI tool helps provide better care to pregnant women in Kenya

Penn State: New AI tool helps provide better care to pregnant women in Kenya. “When compared to Jacaranda Health’s baseline AI model, TRIM-AI is roughly 17% more accurate at predicting high-risk medical conditions from text messages sent by new and expecting Kenyan mothers, which reduces the help-desk agents’ workload by approximately 12%. Their model also annotated messages more efficiently and accurately than human agents did.”

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December 6, 2022

Vogue: What Is Social Media Doing to Our Concept of Pregnancy?

Vogue: What Is Social Media Doing to Our Concept of Pregnancy?. “There is a body of research showing that engagement with Instagram momfluencers is associated with an increase anxiety in a subset of women who already tend towards social comparison and those who have low self-esteem. There’s nothing magical about social media, per se — researchers have long found that comparing ourselves to unattainable ideals makes us feel bad. But the ubiquity of imagery is new; we are now bombarded with media in a way that has no precedent.”

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November 21, 2022

UC Irvine: UCI-led study finds virtual green space exposure beneficial to pregnant women

UC Irvine: UCI-led study finds virtual green space exposure beneficial to pregnant women. “Pregnant women exposed to a green space environment in a virtual reality setting experienced decreases in blood pressure and improvements in mental health and well-being, according to a study led by the University of California, Irvine.”

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August 20, 2022

The Verge: Period and pregnancy tracking apps have bad privacy protections, report finds

The Verge: Period and pregnancy tracking apps have bad privacy protections, report finds. “Most popular period and pregnancy tracking apps don’t have strong privacy protections, according to a new analysis from researchers at Mozilla. Leaky privacy policies in health apps are always a problem, but issues that fall into this particular category are especially concerning now that abortion is illegal in many places in the United States.”

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August 20, 2022

NPR: Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people’s abortion search data

NPR: Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people’s abortion search data. “About 650 Google workers have signed a petition asking the company to protect users’ abortion-related location data and search history. The move comes over concerns that law enforcement agencies will seek such data from Google to prosecute abortion seekers.”

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August 4, 2022

ProPublica: How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Took Root Early On and Why It Won’t Go Away

ProPublica: How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Took Root Early On and Why It Won’t Go Away. “Before coronavirus vaccines were even released, a disinformation campaign used a moment of national and personal vulnerability to prey on those who were pregnant or who planned to become pregnant.”

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August 4, 2022

International Atomic Energy Agency: IAEA Launches Database on Breast Milk Intake

International Atomic Energy Agency: IAEA Launches Database on Breast Milk Intake. “The IAEA’s Database on Human Milk Intake is a growing global collection of studies, currently representing research from 28 countries across all regions, using the nuclear technique, deuterium oxide dose-to-mother (DTM), to determine how much breast milk breastfed infants consume.”

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June 24, 2022

Birthing a Capstone: A Prenatal and Postpartum Health Toolkit for Public Librarians (National Library of Medicine)

National Library of Medicine: Birthing a Capstone: A Prenatal and Postpartum Health Toolkit for Public Librarians. “Using PubMed and MedlinePlus as well as curating more online resources, this new toolkit gives librarians a ready-made, customizable bank of resources so that they can distribute pre-prepared resources or customize our resources templates to suit their specific library’s needs and ensures that librarians have access to high-quality, evidence-based information about prenatal, expecting, and postpartum needs to distribute to patrons, with the option to tailor it to suit their patrons’ needs.”

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May 12, 2022

BuzzFeed News: She Was Single. She Wanted A Baby. So She Did It Herself.

BuzzFeed News: She Was Single. She Wanted A Baby. So She Did It Herself.. “In recent years, SMBCs have formed small but rich and tight-knit online communities like the 4,000-member-strong Single Mother by Choice subreddit, where they help one another navigate the complexities of this path. Topics include how to find a sperm donor, what to say to your friends and family, whether to do insemination through a fertility clinic or the ‘DIY’ method, and how to prepare your finances for a child.”

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April 28, 2022

Washington Post: Google is letting you limit ads about pregnancy and weight loss

Washington Post: Google is letting you limit ads about pregnancy and weight loss. “Google says it wants to give you more control over the ads you see. Starting today, you can tell the company to stop showing you ads about pregnancy and parenting, dating or weight loss.”

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March 2, 2022

WGN: Pandemic causes dip in birth rate, mental health crisis among pregnant, post-partum women

WGN: Pandemic causes dip in birth rate, mental health crisis among pregnant, post-partum women. “COVID-19 has had an impact on pregnant and postpartum women during the pandemic. The Illinois Department of Public Health has been tracking the number of women testing positive for COVID-19 at delivery. The latest data shows from March 2020 to March 2021, there were nearly 1,500 positive cases.”

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February 21, 2022

BloombergQuint: Google Reaches Undisclosed Settlement in Discrimination Suit

BloombergQuint: Google Reaches Undisclosed Settlement in Discrimination Suit. “Alphabet Inc.’s Google has reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with Chelsey Glasson, who said she faced discrimination by the search giant after she became pregnant. Glasson sued Google in 2020 after repeated efforts to report pregnancy discrimination were ignored, she said in October. She estimated her legal fight would cost more than $100,000 and take a heavy toll on her mental health. Glasson said her experience at Google left her with insomnia, panic attacks and heart palpitations.”

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February 16, 2022

CDC study: COVID vaccination during pregnancy protects infants (Axios)

Axios: CDC study: COVID vaccination during pregnancy protects infants. “Getting vaccinated against the coronavirus while pregnant can protect infants 6 months and younger from being hospitalized for COVID, according to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

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Moms’ and babies’ medical data predicts prematurity complications, Stanford Medicine-led study shows (Stanford Medicine)

Penn State: New AI tool helps provide better care to pregnant women in Kenya

UC Irvine: UCI-led study finds virtual green space exposure beneficial to pregnant women

The Verge: Period and pregnancy tracking apps have bad privacy protections, report finds

NPR: Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people’s abortion search data

ProPublica: How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Took Root Early On and Why It Won’t Go Away

International Atomic Energy Agency: IAEA Launches Database on Breast Milk Intake

Birthing a Capstone: A Prenatal and Postpartum Health Toolkit for Public Librarians (National Library of Medicine)

Washington Post: Google is letting you limit ads about pregnancy and weight loss

WGN: Pandemic causes dip in birth rate, mental health crisis among pregnant, post-partum women

BloombergQuint: Google Reaches Undisclosed Settlement in Discrimination Suit

CDC study: COVID vaccination during pregnancy protects infants (Axios)

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