Women's Health

The MyPath tool integrates reproductive goals assessment, information on pre-pregnancy health, and contraceptive decision support to help guide clinical counseling.

A study of more than 1.5 million women with a history of preeclampsia found up to a 4-fold higher risk of MI and 3-fold increased risk of stroke within 10 years of delivery.

Accelerometer-measured physical activity and steps were associated with as much as a 60% lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in a new study.

New research offers insight into how women who use cannabis during pregnancy perceive the impacts of cannabis legalization.

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Americans are putting off care, even for serious conditions, because of cost. Inflation may have driven the numbers to an all time high, a new survey suggests.

An overall good quality of diet and higher fish intake during pregnancy were related to better language skills in 2-year-old children, according to new study.

Australian investigators found a 14% higher risk of fracture for every 1-SD increment in level of HDL-C in community dwelling healthy adults aged ≥70 years.

In women with osteoporosis treated with abolaparatide, trabecular bone score increased significantly, reflecting improved bone microarchitecture and strength.

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How to keep family planning conversations in primary care? First, you have to have them, says UC San Francisco professor of family community medicine, Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS.

Clinician-directed conversations on contraception and family planning remove patients from the center of the visit which is where must be in a shared decision-making model.

In a study of 874 adults, more women were diagnosed with chronic cluster headache and experienced longer attacks compared with men.

The in-person requirement for mifepristone dispensing was removed from the drug's REMS, potentially expanding access to women in need in a precarious environment.

Findings showed that greater concordance to the Mediterranean diet was linked to a 21% lower risk of developing any adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Having both conditions while pregnant in the current study conferred more than double the risk of future CVD vs having either condition alone.

Drug overdose deaths increased approximately 81% among pregnant and postpartum women in the US from 2017 to 2020, according to new research.

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Racial disparities in maternal, prenatal, and infant care are "stark and unacceptable," say authors of the March of Dimes 2022 Report Card.

The "Plan B" emergency contraceptive at 2 times the normal dose was not more effective in study participants with BMI >30.

Analysis of women who did not have high blood pressure while pregnant found that 1 in 10 were diagnosed with hypertension in the year after delivery.

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AHA 2022: Study authors say more research is needed to investigate the impact of targeting social determinants of health to improve cardiometabolic risk and mortality in pregnant women.

Black women seeking fertility care were less likely to report getting COVID-19 vaccine and were unsatisfied with how major health care systems handled the pandemic.

An OTC progestin only pill could potentially reduce the number of annual unintended pregnancies in the US by tens of thousands, a novel modeling study reveals.

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Findings underscore the need for ongoing efforts to improve prevention strategies, as CVD risk factors in younger women continue to rise, according to authors.

Early age at either type 1 or type 2 diabetes diagnosis was associated with earlier age a menopause, suggesting an impact of diabetes on reproductive health, authors say.

After early natural (vs surgical) menopause, women who continued to smoke had 4.5-fold greater risk of lung cancer and related mortality, report study authors.