Gynecology/Obstetrics News

Transgender and cisgender women and nonbinary people assigned female sex at birth had similar presentations of monkeypox compared with men, according to data published in The Lancet.

The FDA approved Medicines360’s Liletta hormonal IUD for up to 8 years of pregnancy prevention, according to a company press release.

Drinking any amount of alcohol during pregnancy was associated with changes and delays in fetal brain development, according to data presented at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.

During their lifetime, one in 70 women will receive a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, which is the second most common gynecologic cancer in the United States, according to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Late menarche was associated with a 15% to 33% greater risk for MI and stroke among premenopausal women compared with menarche at age 13 years, researchers reported.

Even in cases of mild or asymptomatic COVID-19, severe disseminated intravascular coagulation was a possibility for pregnant people, findings from a retrospective case series show.

A greater number of live births causally reduced the risk for endometrial cancer, according to study results published in BMC Medicine.

Moderate state legislation on abortion was associated with lower rates of maternal, fetal and infant mortality, but did not lower all-cause mortality, compared with restrictive laws, data published in Obstetrics & Gynecology showed.

Postmenopausal women with moderate to severe genitourinary syndrome experienced small but significant increases in serum estradiol after using vaginal estradiol tablets for 12 weeks, according to a post hoc analysis in JAMA Network Open.

Despite state insurance mandates, racial and ethnic disparities in the use of IVF and its clinical outcomes remain, researchers reported.