Maternal Health News

There is inadequate evidence to recommend for or against the use of iron supplements during pregnancy or screening pregnant people for iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Since FDA approval of over-the-counter emergency contraception in 2006, there has been a large decrease in emergency contraception-related ED visits and total annual hospital charges, researchers reported.

Black women tend to prefer to be cared for by Black obstetric providers during pregnancy due to past experiences of discrimination and racism, according to a presenter at The Pregnancy Meeting.

Treatment with Stelara for inflammatory bowel disease did not increase the risk for adverse maternal or fetal pregnancy outcomes, and infants exposed in utero reached developmental milestones in the first year of life, data showed.

Current data support naltrexone use as medication for opioid use disorder in pregnancy, with encouraging perinatal outcomes, according to a systematic review published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

U.S. policy changes are needed to reduce perinatal mental health deserts, standardize social determinants of health data, improve psychiatric curriculums and establish paid parental leave, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

Pregnant women who were prescribed opioid drugs had increased likelihood of spontaneous preterm delivery, and odds increased as total dose increased, according to case-control study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Women who experienced the death of a partner or older child during or around the time of pregnancy were more likely to have offspring who developed HF by midlife, Danish and Swedish register data show.

In this video exclusive, Caroline T. Nguyen, MD, talks with Nicole Gomez, MD, about implications of prediabetes in pregnancy.

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.