Reproductive Health News

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have a higher likelihood of experiencing infertility and subfertility, which can harm mental health and trigger stress, but not everyone with this disorder will require assisted reproduction to conceive.

Women with Spanish language preferences strongly preferred prenatal care clinicians with the highest level of Spanish language proficiency along with positive clinician-patient interpersonal dynamics, researchers reported.

The number of congenital syphilis-related stillbirths increased annually from 2016 to 2022 in the U.S. while the proportion of cases resulting in stillbirth remained stable, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Exposure to air pollution over a half-decade increased the risk for infertility in men, the results of a nationwide cohort study published in BMJ showed.

Tubal sterilization rates in women rose in the U.S. after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, results from research letter published in JAMA revealed.

The FDA announced it has commissioned an independent literature review and internal bench laboratory study to evaluate metals in tampons after a recent study suggested tampons sold in the U.S. tested for the presence of toxic metals.

Women with asthma required more fertility treatments and experienced more fetal loss in Denmark, according to an abstract presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Women with vs. without disabilities have higher severe maternal morbidity risk during childbirth, with the highest risks observed for women with vision or physical disabilities, researchers reported in O&G Open.

Extending routine donor-recipient matching to include Rhesus c, E and K antigens was tied to lower odds for hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn vs. standard ABO blood type and Rhesus D antigen matching, researchers reported.