Following FDA restrictions on sales and distribution of Essure, Bayer announced in July that it would discontinue U.S. sales of Essure at the end of 2018.
In May, the failure of liquid nitrogen storage tanks at two major infertility centers led to a review of procedures at those and other similar facilities by them and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM).
In September, the first-ever guidelines for perimenopausal depression were developed by The North American Menopause Society and the National Network on Depression Centers Women and Mood Disorders Task Group.
In November, the results of a cohort study suggested thatminimally invasive and open surgeries may not produce similar survival rates for early cervical cancer.
In December, South China Morning Post published a video of Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, made during a conference in Hong Kong, in which he said that a second woman may be pregnant with an embryo that he genetically modified using CRISPR-Cas9.
