Reproductive Health News

Pregnant women with opioid use disorder treated with buprenorphine combined with naloxone had similar and, in some cases, more favorable neonatal and maternal outcomes vs. treatment with buprenorphine alone, researchers reported in JAMA.

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome are more likely to have any form of disordered eating, particularly bulimia or binge eating disorder, suggesting a weight-neutral treatment plan could be beneficial, data show.

Nearly 10% of women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy had post-acute sequelae 6 or more months later, according to results of the RECOVER-Pregnancy study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

A remote postpartum blood pressure management program led to fewer hospital readmissions, greater postpartum visit attendance, improved guideline adherence and higher rates of antihypertensive prescriptions, researchers reported.

In the U.S., diabetic ketoacidosis frequency at prenatal and delivery hospitalizations increased from 2010 to 2020 for mothers with pregestational diabetes, according to study results published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

A low-cost, battery-powered ultrasonography probe with integrated AI for image interpretation reliably measured gestational age compared with standard ultrasound, providing a possible option for low-resource settings, diagnostic data show.

In the U.S., moral distress was high for all abortion-providing clinicians but was twice as high for clinicians practicing in states with vs. without strict abortion laws, according to survey results published in JAMA Network Open.

Women with asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 infection at the time of frozen embryo transfer did not experience significant adverse early pregnancy outcomes, researchers reported in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

Chronic stressors, fewer prenatal care visits, premature rupture of membrane and medical risk factors may influence the higher preterm birth rate for Black vs. white women, study findings published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth indicate.

The proportion of U.S. women who reported having a self-managed abortion rose by 1 percentage point after the Dobbs decision removed a federal right to abortion, suggesting people are increasingly relying on self-sourced methods, data show.