Bob Kronemyer

“Women show an accelerated loss of muscle mass around menopause, possibly related to the decline in estrogen,” wrote the authors.

The study provides preliminary evidence of improvements in sexual function in breast cancer survivors who receive laser therapy.

A retrospective chart review has concluded that less than one-third of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) attended an initial follow-up visit after long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) insertion.

“We need to find a good balance between conservative and surgical treatment,” said principal investigator Sylvia Mechsner, MD.

A study in the Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine found that the combination of a cervical procedure and vaginal micronized progesterone helped achieve term deliveries in more than 90% of pregnant women with large uterine fibroids (UFs).

Black women are more likely to undergo uterine fibroid (UF) treatments that are uterine-sparing compared with their White counterparts, according to a prospective cohort study in the Journal of Women’s Health.

This article is on based on information presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, which was held Jan. 25 to Jan. 30.

This article is on based on information presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, which was held Jan. 25 to Jan. 30.

For treating inflammatory pain in endometriosis, inflammatory factors that promote angiogenesis and neuroangiogenesis are encouraging targets, according to a systematic review in the journal Biomedicines.

A prospective study from the People’s Republic of China has concluded that menopausal symptoms in women with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) were significantly higher than in women with natural menopause.

This article is on based on information presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, which was held Jan. 25 to Jan. 30.

This article is on based on information presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, which was held Jan. 25 to Jan. 30.

“We are very concerned about increases in SMM noted in recent years in the United States,” said principal investigator Dena Goffman, MD.

This article is on based on information presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, which was held Jan. 25 to Jan. 30.

This article is on based on information presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, which was held Jan. 25 to Jan. 30.

The investigators found an extremely low failure rate of 0.31%.

A population-based register study from the Netherlands has found that the percentage of pregnant women opting for fetal aneuploidy screening reached a high of 45.9% within 1 year after the introduction in 2017 of a noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) as a first-tier test for all women.

Blood pressure (BP) measurements are higher when taken at alternative locations like the wrist and forearm, according to a prospective study of pregnant patients.

Initiation of more effective contraception occurred more often among patients who were seen by a volunteer reproductive health educator during routine visits at a resident obstetrics and gynecology clinic, according to a study published in Maternal and Child Health Journal.

Women with HIV are no more vulnerable to menopause-related cognitive declines compared to other women, according to a longitudinal cohort study in the journal Menopause.

A retrospective study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Health has concluded that total laparoscopic retrograde hysterectomy (TLreH) for severe endometriosis with obliterated cul-de-sac is both feasible and safe.

In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, many U.S. family planning providers have started offering telemedicine services.

Women with submucosal uterine leiomyomas who undergo hysteroscopic removal have comparable birth outcomes to women with submucosal uterine leiomyomas who do not have hysteroscopic removal, according to a retrospective case-control study in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM.

Awareness of most types of birth control was generally high among both white and non-white women, according to a prospective study that examined racial differences in contraceptive awareness and use among women seeking care at family health centers.

Young women have significantly better adherence to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) than to short-acting reversible contraception (SARC) at 12 months, according to a systemic review and meta-analysis.

English-speaking women were nearly four times as likely to be offered immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) than Spanish-speaking Hispanic women, according to a study in the journal Women’s Health Issues.

High signal intensity on T1-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRI) and low diffusion coefficient values can accurately differentiate uterine leiomyosarcoma from benign leiomyoma, according to a meta-analysis in the Journal of the Belgium Society of Radiology.

A study in the journal Vascular Health and Risk Management has found significant differences in the metabolite profiling of altered amino acid and lipoprotein metabolism in participants with atherosclerosis and osteoporosis, compared with those in healthy menopausal women.

A European multicenter clinical study that evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of radiofrequency echographic multi-spectrometry (REMS) for osteoporosis has concluded that both REMS sensitivity and specificity are over 90%, when using the current clinical reference technology of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA).

A 12-week course of low-intensity resistance training in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis or osteopenia was found safe and an effective method to improve muscle strength, bone formation markers and balance, according to a study in the Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness.