
At the 2023 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, presenters provided the benefits of breastfeeding, along with some useful tips for lactation and how to best help your breastfeeding patients.

At the 2023 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, presenters provided the benefits of breastfeeding, along with some useful tips for lactation and how to best help your breastfeeding patients.

In a recent study, differences in pain for women taking esketamine alongside epidural anesthesia for cesarean delivery compared with placebo were not clinically meaningful, showing a need for further research.

In a recent study, centers performing open spina bifida repair saw variations in policies for fetal resuscitation.

Sleep duration and daytime napping are not strongly linked to dementia risk, although there may be a small increase in risk associated with short sleep duration.

In a recent study, menopause was associated with an estimated annual financial loss of $1.8 billion in work time and $26.6 billion in medical costs in the United States.

In a recent study, female patients born by cesarean delivery were more likely to experience early-onset colorectal cancer.

Compared with those without SLE, those with SLE had a higher risk of fetal morbidity and mothers were almost 4 times as likely to require a blood transfusion or develop a cerebrovascular disorder.

In a recent study, individuals who had experienced challenges accessing contraceptive care, common among Black, Indigenous, and people of color, were more likely to use an over-the-counter oral contraceptive pill.

In a recent study, female reproductive hormone concentration and age at menopause were impacted by smoking, alcohol, and coffee consumption.

In a recent study, rates of cesarean delivery were significantly reduced across a wide variety of hospitals following non-medically indicated induction of labor.

In a recent study, significant maternal mortality was found in mothers infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy, with worse outcomes during the second wave of the pandemic compared to the first.

In a recent study, being forced to travel out of state for abortion care led to increased feelings of worry, stigma, and being cast out among patients.

In a recent study, rates of severe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy were higher in passive smokers than non-smokers.

An analysis of data from 3 European countries provides insight into the apparent increase in risk of atrial fibrillation associated with preterm births as well as LGA or SGA births.

In patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome and metabolic syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea was associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in women, but not in men.

On Friday, the Supreme Court voted to keep mifepristone (Mifeprex; Danco Laboratories) on the market, maintaining its availability for women seeking an abortion.

In a recent study, the SmartMom digital program was able to provide valuable prenatal education through SMS text messaging.

Digital tools are helping to find and fill unused capacity in the health care system.

In a recent study, anxiety- and depression-related disorders were more common in women with polycystic ovary syndrome, chronic pelvic pain, and other reproductive disorders.

In a recent review, increased requests for telemedicine abortion and decreased in-person visits to abortion clinics were observed.

Research indicates that despite reports of high psychological stress among women in their 20s and 30s in China and Japan, awareness of stress’s effects on aging remain higher among health professionals.

In a recent study, knowledge and consideration of self-managed abortion was common for patients before accessing in-clinic care.

In a recent study, histologic subtype accounted for 54.1% of the excess relative risk for Black patients compared to White patients with uterine cancer.

With an FDA approval, it would be the first new class of oral antibiotics for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTI) in over 20 years.

In a recent study, changes in gestational age distribution in the United States reflected increasing induction of labor rates between 1990 and 2017.

In a recent study, the contraception failure rate for patients taking topiramate and oral contraceptives was similar to patients taking other maintenance therapies and oral contraceptives.

In a recent phase 1 trial, DARE-HRT1 showed positive safety and acceptability results for treating moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women.

In a recent study, greater levels of prenatal concern were associated with higher risks of anxiety, insomnia, and depression.

In a recent study, Developmental Assessment of Young Children, second edition scores for neurodevelopmental outcomes did not differ between infants exposed to maternal COVID-19 during pregnancy and those not exposed.

In a recent study, the mean number of barriers to reproductive health care experienced by patients increased from 1.09 in 2017 to 1.29 in 2021.