Kurt R. Wharton, MD, FACOG

Health care providers need to learn more about nutrition — especially its impact during pregnancy — according to Kurt R. Wharton, MD, FACOG, chief of the Women’s and Children’s Clinical Care Programs for Beaumont Health in Michigan.

Although combined oral contraceptives improved overall premenstrual symptomatology in women with PMS or premenstrual dysphoric disorder, the birth control pills did not improve premenstrual depressive symptoms, data show.

A new committee opinion issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists encourages women’s health professionals to acknowledge that trauma occurs and the effect it has on their patients and colleagues.

Once-daily treatment with a combination of relugolix, estradiol and norethindrone acetate significantly reduced menstrual bleeding with uterine fibroids, according to two randomized studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine.