Maternal Health News

Three or more doses of maternal COVID-19 vaccine significantly enhance antibody concentrations in preterm infants compared with two or fewer doses, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Mothers with type 1 or type 2 diabetes have increased risks for having children with a congenital heart defect, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Higher serum estradiol levels in early pregnancy were associated with increased risk for preeclampsia, particularly after frozen embryo transfer cycles, researchers reported in Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Women with poor ovarian response to stimulation had higher likelihood of using frozen oocytes after planned cryopreservation vs. women normal response, particularly among women aged 30 to 39 years, according to cohort study results.

The FDA said this week that it is working with a French pharmaceutical company to temporarily import into the United States an antibiotic that can treat syphilis as a way to address the country’s penicillin shortage.

Hybrid SARS-CoV-2 immunity in pregnancy — immunity from a prior infection plus vaccination — is associated with a greater likelihood of protection at delivery for mothers and infants compared with a prior infection alone, a study found.

Once-daily relugolix combination therapy reduced heavy menstrual bleeding associated with uterine fibroids for most Black women, according to results of the LIBERTY long-term extension study.

After cesarean delivery, utilizing a personalized protocol for opioid prescriptions reduced the number of opioids prescribed at discharge without affecting hospital readmissions or the need for rescue prescriptions, researchers reported.

Women with clinically diagnosed perinatal depression have an increased risk for suicidal behavior, especially within the first year after diagnosis, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Telemedicine requests for advance provision of abortion medications increased following Dobbs and FDA mifepristone rulings, according to study results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.