Fezolinetant making waves for VMS

The North American Menopause Society Advisory Panel has announced the release of their 2023 position statement on nonhormonal therapy for menopause.

In this episode of Pap Talk, Contemporary OB/GYN® Associate Editor Lindsey Carr sat down with Jessica Shim, MD, an attending at in the Division of Gynecology, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts, to discuss Myfembree (relugolix, estradiol, and norethindrone acetate tablets; Myovant Sciences, Pfizer) and its possible approval in May 2022.

In a recent study, midlife women with prediabetes before menopause transition were more likely to experience fractures in postmenopause.

In this episode of Pap Talk, Contemporary OB/GYN® sat down with Maneesh Jain, CEO of Mirvie, and Michal Elovitz, MD, chief medical advisor at Mirvie, a new RNA platform that is able to predict pregnancy complications by revealing the biology of each pregnancy. They discussed recently published data regarding the platform's ability to predict preeclampsia and preterm birth.

Fezolinetant (Veozah; Astellas Pharma) is now the first neurokinin 3 receptor antagonist approved for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause.

In a unanimous vote, norgestrel (Opill; HRA Pharma) has been backed by an FDA advisory panel as an over-the-counter birth control pill.