Kristen V. Brown
@kristenvbrown
Health + science journalist. Writing a book about the science and history of fertility | fan of sparkles | say hi: kristen@kristenvbrown.com
My aunt was going through some old boxes of things and found this clipping she saved about endometriosis from my hometown paper, The OC Register, in 1982. It refers to endometriosis as “the career women’s disease.” And the cure? Pregnancy!
PS. I do think tracking devices for pets are generally overkill ( I wrote about it a few years ago!) but this dude has a heart condition so he wears a monitor. Still might be overkill, though.
I have never once gotten a perfect sleep score. My cat on the other hand:
Very glad we’ve moved past inserting electrodes into women’s vaginas
Bought a smart plant monitor and now it feels like my plants are constantly texting me the equivalent of “you up?”
Wow to some of the comments are the first IVF baby was born. "Something frogs do in a dirty stream"!
The contentious public hearing is one of my favorite genres of news stories.
It's absolutely bonkers that this book is still in print. I promise you, douching with vinegar is definitely not a good way to guarantee a girl. It IS a good way to mess up your vaginal microbiome, though!
This is why AI poses a threat to the medical profession. Not that it can offer anything a doctor can't (at least not right now)! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This is what we all need and want though! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/d...
Maybe my first encounter with an exclamation point in a scientific publication
This bit from @dkthomp.bsky.social's latest Atlantic cover story really resonated. My habits have definitely changed since the pandemic: More often I eat at home, watch movies at home and even socialize at home, inviting people over in lieu of going out. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
My mom used ChatGPT to help buy presents this year. The prompt: poetry books for a nearly 40 female journalist. Here’s what it came up with:
Fun fact: The doctor in this scandal was Pedro Pascal's dad www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... people.com/all-about-pe...
Anyway, here is my baby princess angel, Avalanche, sporting her very sleek but ultimately not very helpful tracking collar
Tomorrow: AMA about sharing your DNA data. R/health at 1pm EST. Bonus points if you can read my handwriting.
It turns out the Aztecs shared the same values as @tcolicchio.bsky.social !