A study of 1206 women found that while many remain sexually active as they age, a higher number of menopausal symptoms was linked to decreased sexual satisfaction.
Contemporary OB/GYN will be on site in Washington, D.C. to cover the latest data out of the 75th Annual ACOG Clinical & Scientific Meeting.
These are the top 5 headlines you might have missed in April 2026 from Contemporary OB/GYN.
Maternal dairy intake was consistently associated with lower concentrations of numerous human milk lipid species.
Nicole Sparks, MD, discusses anesthesia approaches, evolving c-section trends, and the growing emphasis on opioid-sparing pain management and postpartum recovery.
A matched cohort study of nearly 14,000 singleton pregnancies found no association between same-day influenza and pertussis vaccination during pregnancy and increased rates of preterm birth, small for gestational age, low birth weight, or any assessed secondary adverse outcome compared with pertussis vaccination alone.
Data presented at HRS 2026 indicates that nearly 60% of arrhythmias in pregnant patients are first detected after the initial 48 hours of cardiac monitoring.
Rachel Sood, NP-C, CDCES, highlights how the FDA clearance of Control-IQ+ provides the clinical proof needed to expand the use of AID systems in T1D pregnancies.
The expanded label to include use during pregnancy complicated by type 1 diabetes mellitus is based on data from the CIRCUIT trial.
Although targeted treatments for neuroproliferative dyspareunia remain a future goal, clinicians can use current findings to counsel patients that differential nerve growth around endometriosis lesions may underlie their experience of deep dyspareunia—with serum NGF biomarkers and upstream mechanistic research identified as key next steps.
Yeo details the use of PBPK modeling alongside organ-on-a-chip technology to predict fetal drug exposure and optimize the maternal risk-benefit ratio.
The findings presented at PAS demonstrated that infants who received preventive RSV measures, including maternal vaccination, had significantly lower RSV infection.
"Results remained similar in subgroup analyses of early- and late-onset, and preterm and term preeclampsia," according to findings.
Effective January 1, 2027, the Current Procedural Terminology codes will replace the global maternity payment model to bill for antepartum, labor, delivery, and postpartum phases.
Research presented at SCAI 2026 indicates that although objective illness markers drive treatment, sex differences in clinical communication significantly influence the decision-making process.
Utepreva LLC has launched a proprietary, FDA-cleared endometrial sampler that combines suction, disruption, and absorption to improve tissue yield in 20-second office procedures.
A prospective registry study of 180 patients found that PGP9.5 nerve bundle density around posterior pelvic endometriosis lesions was significantly associated with deep dyspareunia but not with other endometriosis-related pain types, validating the proposed subtype of neuroproliferative dyspareunia.
The letter from the federal agency allows further phase 2 development for refisolone under an investigational new drug application.
Ramu Perni highlights how the "one tube" workflow streamlines obstetric practices by enabling add-on RBC and platelet antigen tests.
Off-label use of HSDD medications in postmenopausal women is common, highlighting unmet treatment needs and a gap between patient search behavior and clinical terminology.
The incidence of SUI at 6 weeks post partum was 8.7% for the PEFLOW group compared to 13.9% for those receiving usual care (P = .03).
Investigators developed an automated method to categorize maternal morbidity, finding that infection and hypertension account for nearly 45% of nontransfusion-related complications.
ACOG now recommends a combination of transvaginal ultrasonography and endometrial tissue sampling for the initial evaluation of most patients presenting with postmenopausal bleeding.
According to Beth Ann Clayton, DNP, CRNA, FAANA, FAAN, maintaining patients with substance use disorder on methadone or Subutex is a critical component of preoperative planning.
According to ACOG, approximately 90% of patients diagnosed with endometrial cancer have postmenopausal bleeding. Read more on the College's updated recommendations below.
Institutions can meaningfully reduce racial disparities in urine toxicology testing at delivery by eliminating universal testing and adopting any standardized criteria-based screening protocol—provided the criteria are grounded in clinical evidence rather than demographic variables that function as proxies for race.
Conditions like chorioamnionitis change the pH of the surgical environment, which can prevent local anesthetics from working optimally, according to Beth Ann Clayton.
New research indicates significant disparities in immediate STI antibiotic administration in emergency departments based on pregnancy status.
Moving LiSWT into formal postpartum care guidelines will require randomized controlled trials with adequate sample sizes, defined treatment parameters, long-term follow-up, and dedicated safety data in lactating patients, with cost-effectiveness analysis also identified as a priority research direction.
Scott Sullivan, MD, describes a new strategy of training ER staff in hospitals without OB services to manage "drop-in" obstetric emergencies through simulation and remote support.
