Reproductive Health News

Among women in Africa with vaginal deliveries, early postpartum hemorrhage detection and use of a bundled treatment intervention lowered risk for severe postpartum bleeding and laparotomy or death from bleeding vs. usual care, data show.

Among women with stress urinary incontinence and endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia or early-stage cancer, concomitant surgeries for both conditions did not improve quality of life compared with cancer surgery alone, researchers reported.

Pregnancies among patients with Sjögren’s syndrome demonstrate “very good prognoses” for both the parent and fetus, and do not reflect an increased risk for adverse outcomes, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Pregnancy likelihood was higher when women using an estetrol and drospirenone combined oral contraceptive reported not taking all hormone-containing pills per 28-day cycle, according to a secondary analysis.

States with abortion restrictions had a greater number of internet searches containing keywords related to self-managed abortions compared with states without restrictions, according to a research letter published in JAMA Surgery.

Depression associated with hormonal contraception may indicate susceptibility to postpartum depression, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Although maternal mortality ratios increased for U.S. women of all races and ethnicities from 1999 to 2023, American Indian, Alaska Native and Black women, specifically, had increased risks for pregnancy-related death, researchers reported.

Children born to placentas with fetal inflammatory syndrome are more likely to be diagnosed with neuropsychiatric disorders, according to a study published in Translational Psychiatry.

Women who have gestational diabetes during pregnancy have a more than 11 times higher risk for developing diabetes than women who did not have gestational diabetes, according to a study published in Diabetes Care.

For premenopausal women with endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia, use of conservative treatment with progestin increased and hysterectomy declined from 2008 to 2020, researchers reported.