Reproductive Health News

Perinatal vs. non-perinatal suicide was more likely to be associated with depression, substance use, physical health issues and recent bereavement, highlighting the need for targeted interventions and policies, researchers reported.

ORLANDO — Since 2005, an Irish diabetes in pregnancy program has steadily improved pregnancy and neonatal outcomes through extensive research and development of services for care before, during and after pregnancy.

The Dobbs decision was associated with declines in prescriptions for oral contraceptive pills, especially for emergency contraception, in states with the most restrictive abortion laws, according to cohort study results.

NEW YORK — Gynecological conditions with hormonal derangements may contribute to secondary psychosis among adolescent females, according to results of a literature review presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.

Postpartum readmission risk was higher for women with stillbirth vs. live birth deliveries, with mental health/substance use disorders and thromboembolism accounting for more, and hypertension fewer, readmissions following stillbirth.

Obtaining medication abortion after no-test telehealth screening and mail-order medication dispensing was tied to similar abortion completion rates as in-person care with ultrasonography, according to study results published in JAMA.

Fidelma Dunne, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPI, describes herself as a wife, mother, grandmother, sister and daughter who draws satisfaction from her family and from her career in endocrinology.

At 2 months postpartum, about one in 11 women with cesarean deliveries at 34 weeks’ gestation or longer developed PTSD symptoms, according to study results published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Live birth rates were lower for women with vs. without deep infiltrating endometriosis and/or endometrioma undergoing first IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection, according to study results published in Fertility and Sterility.

After a healthy live birth, interpregnancy intervals shorter than 18 months or 36 months or longer were associated with an increased risk for subsequent spontaneous abortion, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Network Open.