Women’s Health News

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A novel therapeutic approach targeting the neonatal fragment crystallizable receptor may have implications across a number of rheumatology disease states, according to a speaker.

Polycystic ovary syndrome was associated with increased risk for CVD in women, and while incidence varies, its prevalence worldwide increased since 1990, researchers reported.

Migraine plus persistent vasomotor symptoms is associated with greater CVD risk and stroke for women, according to a secondary data analysis published in Menopause.

HPV vaccination with one or two doses at age 12 to 13 years prevents invasive cervical cancer development, researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Compared with men, women are less likely to die of any cause or from CV-specific causes when performing similar amounts of weekly leisure-time physical activity, suggesting there are sex-specific benefits to exercise, researchers reported.

Dexmedetomidine administration early in the postpartum period was associated with significantly lower positive postpartum depression incidence compared with placebo, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Among women with infertility who used clomiphene citrate and/or gonadotropins, 65.4% did not access IVF even though the technology was available without cost, according to results of a cohort study conducted in France.

Many women with HIV reported using contraceptives in a survey, but just over half remembered having a conversation with a provider about them, results showed.

Shorter interpregnancy intervals were strongly associated with an increase in uterine rupture in trials of labor after cesarean, according to a presenter at The Pregnancy Meeting.

Among women with obesity, 50 µg and 25 µg vaginal misoprostol were associated with similar time to delivery, but multiparous women had significantly reduced time to delivery with 50 µg, according to data presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.