Women's Health

ACOG 2025: Dr Baker shares how language can help create a trusting space for patients to speak openly about postpartum depression.

ACOG 2025: Joy Baker, MD, called for stronger cross-specialty collaboration to address maternal mental health after birth.

Steven Fleischman, MD, was inaugurated as ACOG’s 76th president, urging new fellows to lead with purpose and recognize their value in women’s health care.

Fewer than half of females who experienced heavy menstrual bleeding were given hormonal treatment, and far fewer were referred to gynecology, authors reported.

The findings support the potential cardiovascular advantages of the GLP-1RA class in women with PCOS, a population already at increased cardiometabolic risk.

While exercise is beneficial during pregnancy and ACOG recommends 150 mins/week, this is the first study to examine benefits of specific regimen elements on their own.

Postmenopausal women taking fezolinetant experienced positive changes in body fat distribution, increases in which are known to increase risks of cardiometabolic disease.

Details on 12 key abstracts with clinical relevance for primary care, from menopause management to PPD screening and HPV testing.

Elinzanetant reduced VMS frequency and intensity, and improved sleep and quality of life, according to the meta-analysis to be presented at the ACOG 2025 meeting.

The two areas where primary care physicians can contribute to improving women's health, according to Laurence Shields, MD.

Building trust with patients early on will help them feel comfortable discussing their symptoms and treatment preferences, says JoAnn Pinkerton, MD.

Every patient should be offered evidence-based analgesia for pain management for in-office uterine and cervical procedures after shared, trauma-informed decision-making.

More than half of TikTok videos reviewed on hormonal birth control were patient-created and misleading while the majority of posts on endometrial cancer were by clinicians.

Two-thirds of pregnant individuals opted for either maternal vaccination against RSV or for neonatal monoclonal antibody therapy and for other vaccines recommended in pregnancy.

In a cancer survivorship clinic in urban New York, only one-quarter of long-term breast cancer survivors received genetic testing, contrary to current recommendations.

Secnidazole granules reduced recurrence rates to 20% over a period of 28 weeks in a small prospective pilot study, outperforming cumbersome daily regimens.

A preview of sessions covering menopause and vasomotor symptoms during ACOG 2025 in Minneapolis, MN.

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Medical and nonpharmacologic treatment options for VMS range in efficacy and risk/benefit profile; a short slide show offers a topline look at how many compare.

Hot flashes and night sweats are just 2 of the myriad symptoms associated with menopause. Click through a quick refresher on the transition and effective treatments.

A simple RNA-based blood test can identify the risk of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy months before symptoms appear, researchers reported.

The AI program also correctly identified 90% of true positive cases, according to new data presented at the Society for Breast Imaging's annual symposium.

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