September 12th 2025
Review some of the top stories from the Contemporary OB/GYN website over the past week and catch up on anything you may have missed.
Pregnancy loss linked to increased risk of heart attack in women, but not male partners
July 26th 2023A study from Denmark leveraging more than 40 million years of follow-up data from patients dating back to the 1950s offers insight into the apparent increase in the risk of myocardial infarction associated with pregnancy loss in women and whether this same effect is observed in male partners.
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Maternal mortality rates highlight alarming inequities by state, race/ethnicity
July 5th 2023The American Indian and Alaska Native population show the largest increase in median state ratios, rising from 14 - 49.2, while the Black population consistently had the highest median state ratios, increasing from 26.7 - 55.4.
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Neighborhood food environments and size for gestational age
June 22nd 2023In a recent study, pregnant individuals residing in neighborhoods with greater densities of unhealthy food were at an increased risk of giving birth to infants who were small for gestational age or large for gestational age.
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Haywood Brown, MD, on the current landscape of maternal mortality in the United States
May 22nd 2023At the 2023 ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting, Haywood Brown, MD, discusses the current maternal mortality rate in the United States, as well as disparities affecting different racial and ethnic groups.
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Pfizer's infant RSV vaccine receives FDA Advisory Committee's support
May 19th 2023The FDA Advisory Committee recently voted in support of approval for Pfizer's maternal immunization vaccine to help prevent RSV in infants. In this Contemporary Pediatrics® interview, Tina Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, pediatric infectious diseases attending, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, explains what this means for this patient population ahead of an expected FDA decision in August, 2023.
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