Susan Reed, MD, on the need for menopause research funding, a clinical trials network, and studies in understudied groups and perimenopause.
|Articles|February 28, 2022
This week on Contemporary OB/GYN®: Feb. 28 to March 4
Author(s)Lindsey Carr, Editor
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A cohort study in JAMA Pediatrics indicates that policies that increase access to immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) improve birth outcomes.
Women with pelvic pain turn to social media for condition information, management
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