Learning about how her body works helped this Ugandan student feel emboldened.
Teen Voices
Being Camp Gyno Turned This Teen Into an Activist
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Getting her period early turned into a blessing in disguise for this teen.
Teen Voices
Cooking Creates Connection for Teen with Feeding Tube
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Rachel can’t taste any of the foods she makes, but cooking gives her a connection to her family and friends. This essay is part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, featuring stories by and about girls with disabilities.
Teen Voices
Girls Challenge Access to Contraception at Johannesburg Clinics
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In order to bring down the teen girl dropout rate at their high schools, teens in Johannesburg head to their local health clinic.
Reproductive Health
Infertility Specialist: Embryo Testing Improving IVF Outcomes
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Dr. David Keefe, a specialist in infertility at New York University’s School of Medicine, talks about what is known, what remains unexplained and how genome sequencing is helping to reduce miscarriages.
Zika virus
Scientist Who Mapped U.S. Zika Risk Now Working on Awareness App
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“Most of us in the U.S. are lucky to be in the periphery,” says Kacey Ernst, an epidemiologist. “But of course with sexual transmission it doesn’t matter where you live.”
2016 elections
‘Periods for Pence’ Follows Trump VP into National Spotlight
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The group that has been spontaneously trolling the Indiana governor for his anti-abortion extremism since March just spawned a copycat Twitter account, Tampons for Trump.
Teen Voices
Hysteria Diagnosis Still Hounds Some Girls with Invisible Disabilities
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“My entire sixth grade experience was people not believing that I was sick,” says one girl. “People thought I used a wheelchair for fun.” Part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, highlighting stories by and about girls with disabilities.
abortion laws
Texas Abortion Clinic Ruling Stirs Huge Online Applause
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Among those celebrating was a young woman who, in a court briefing, described her own abortion. “I knew what was best for my family,” she said, her voice shaking, shortly after the ruling came out June 27.
Maternal Health
To Curb Maternal Death, U.S. Hospitals Urged to Weigh Bleeding Pads
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Getting hospitals to stop estimating blood loss and start quantifying it—going from “EBL to QBL”–is now a major goal of an effort to reduce postpartum hemorrhage, a leading cause of maternal death that disproportionately afflicts black women.
Transgender
Health System Skimps on Trans Health Care Training
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A scarcity of physicians with special training in the needs of one trans man left him giving his doctor guidance on his own testosterone dosage. “There’s a huge online community,” he says, “and luckily I knew from YouTube and Facebook what was typical.”