Women’s pain and discomfort has a history of being ignored in health care. Here are two ways that’s starting to change.

Two major developments in women’s health have recently made news: less invasive alternatives to the pap smear — long considered “an uncomfortable but necessary evil” for cervical cancer screenings — and the new pain management guidelines for IUD insertion, the highly effective contraceptive that many women have said hurts when placed in the uterus to…

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Monkeypox: WHO, Africa’s CDC declare mpox a public health emergency. Will it change anything?

The World Health Organization has declared mpox an international public health emergency for the second time in two years as cases and deaths surge across several east and central African countries. The announcement comes one day after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention declared mpox a continent-wide public health emergency. Although many countries…

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