Reproductive Health News

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.

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.

Postpartum women with chronic hypertension have an increased risk for CVD within the first year after childbirth, according to study results published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Infertility history was associated with lower overall and biomedical cardiovascular health scores among women who had a singleton birth, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Exposure to endocrine-disrupting phthalates may reduce women’s fecundability, or odds of becoming pregnancy during a menstrual cycle, according to findings published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Pregnant women are more likely to have high glucose levels if they report worse psychological stress before conception, according to study findings published in Journal of the Endocrine Society.

Use of NSAIDs significantly increased risk for venous thromboembolism when used concomitantly with hormonal contraception already associated with medium/high risk vs. low/no-risk, according to study results published in The BMJ.