Eric Boodman
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Somerville, MA, United States
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'This is a nonpartisan issue': Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson on fighting for reproductive rights
Planned Parenthood and its CEO Alexis McGill Johnson, named to the 2023 #STATUSList, are dealing with an ever-shifting landscape of legal restrictions on reproductive care. → Read More
'A slippery slope': A looming nationwide abortion pill ban could undermine the entire drug approval system
“You want the court to decide what drugs are safe and effective? Well, good luck to all of us," said Marc Scheineson, a health care lawyer at Alston & Bird and a former FDA associate commissioner. → Read More
As ban on one abortion pill looms, providers look to the other as a fallback. But that isn’t ideal
“Everything being equal, of course, I would always recommend mifepristone and misoprostol over misoprostol alone. But we don't live in a world where everything is equal.” → Read More
‘It’s taken longer than I thought’: A former FDA commissioner on the loosened restrictions on abortion pills
"We always thought that as there was more experience with mifepristone and misoprostol, that at some point, some of those distribution restrictions would be able to be lifted." → Read More
Walgreens to pursue certification to provide abortion pills in pharmacies
Walgreens plans to seek certification to begin providing abortion pills under new FDA rules that allow the drugs to be distributed by retail pharmacies. → Read More
Every kick, a reminder: in post-Roe California, a painful wait before ending a wanted pregnancy
She needed an abortion in California after the Dobbs decision. But with a surge of out-of-state patients, the wait was too long to bear. → Read More
In armadillos, leprosy expands healthy liver tissue. Could that tell us something about regenerating our own?
Researchers reported that leprosy-causing bacteria can expand the livers of armadillos, spurring the growth of healthy tissue without scarring or cancer. → Read More
Chelsea Clinton on abortion care and the connection between democracy and women’s health
For voters, "protecting a woman’s fundamental human right and agency and also our democracy were the most important considerations when they were casting their votes,” Chelsea Clinton said at the #STATSummit. → Read More
Legal at one clinic, illegal at another: How abortion bans make gestational age even less precise
She was 20 weeks pregnant, and needed an abortion. She traveled 250 miles to get it — only to be given a different gestational age, and turned away for being too far along. → Read More
Her mother's abortion was required under China's one-child policy. Her own would be illegal under Tennessee's post-Roe ban
Her mother's abortion was required under China's one-child policy. Her own was illegal under Tennessee's post-Roe ban. → Read More
With homicide the leading cause of maternal mortality, new research shows a link to firearms and intimate partner violence
New research shows the link between the maternal mortality crisis, intimate partner violence, and firearms. → Read More
In a doctor's suspicion after a miscarriage, a glimpse of expanding medical mistrust
It felt like an interrogation, as if she were being accused of doing something wrong, of causing the loss of a pregnancy she hadn’t even known about when she arrived at urgent care. She wished she hadn’t come to see the doctor at all. → Read More
HIPAA won’t protect you if prosecutors want your reproductive health records
In states that ban abortion, one legal expert said, simply the suspicion that a patient had an abortion would be enough to allow law enforcement to poke around in their medical records under the guise of identifying or locating a suspect. → Read More
Patchwork system for rationing a Covid drug sends immunocompromised patients on a 'Hunger Games hunt'
Doctors worry that Evusheld tourism will favor the affluent and the savvy, undermining the careful frameworks they’ve built to promote fair distribution of the Covid drug in short supply. → Read More
To lawyers, conviction of Harvard chemist with China ties shouldn't chill science. Researchers aren't so sure
Some legal experts believe the conviction of a Harvard scientist with China ties shouldn’t be seen as a threat to international research. Researchers aren't so sure. → Read More
How medicine erased Black women from a 'white man's disease'
Even for a “stereotypical” patient, ankylosing spondylitis can take years to get diagnosed. If you're a Black woman and seen as an anomaly, the delay can be even more extreme. → Read More
Philanthropist-funded study raises questions about clinical research
One of the biggest issues is that clinical trials are so often billed as a way to access treatment when that isn't their primary purpose. → Read More
This doctor was one of fibromyalgia patients' few allies. Or was he?
The EpicGenetics test’s ties to a prestigious hospital tell a story about money in medicine and its noxious side effects. → Read More
Testing a CRISPR cure for progeria will be challenging
Designing a human study of a CRISPR-based treatment for an ultra-rare and deadly disease such as progeria poses a challenge. → Read More
He's a Nobel laureate. Critics say he was misleading on Covid
Critics worry about his tendency, in conversations with politicians, in media interviews, and in tweets, to downplay Covid-19's impact. → Read More