Preventive Health News

Pregnant people who received messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines were protected against COVID-19-related ED and urgent care visits and hospitalization when the delta and omicron variants were predominant, according to a case-control study.

About four in five pregnancy-related deaths that occurred in the United States from 2017 to 2019 were preventable, according to the CDC.

The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative — or WPSI — issued new guidelines for preventing weight gain in women aged 40 to 60 years.

HRA Pharma has submitted an application for what would become the first-ever over-the-counter birth control pill in the United States if approved by the FDA.

A recent study found the risk for miscarriage was higher during summer months, leading researchers to suggest a connection between pregnancy loss and extreme heat.

Oral contraceptive use and hormone therapy were associated with an increased risk for stroke, according to study findings published in Stroke.

Obesity is a chronic, complex disease that can lead to a spectrum of additional serious health concerns.

Maternal mortality rates increased 33% after March 2020 compared with before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter in JAMA Network Open.

Long-term adherence to a healthy plant-based diet was associated with a 14% lower risk for breast cancer among postmenopausal women, according to findings presented at the virtual meeting of the American Society of Nutrition.

Women at high risk for HIV need higher levels of plasma tenofovir to prevent infection compared with men, according to data from the largest HIV pharmacokinetics database to date.