Reproductive Health News

Both abortion- and contraception-related internet searches increased from the weeks before and the weeks after the Supreme Court Dobbs decision in June 2022, according to a retrospective cross-sectional study published in JAMA Health Forum.

Postpartum women with opioid use disorder experience a high incidence of postpartum opioid overdose death, other substance-related injuries, accidents and suicide, according to findings published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

SAN DIEGO — Internal medicine physicians “really share the responsibility” for patients seeking contraception, according to Pelin Batur, MD, FACP, NCMP.

Fetal monitoring from 39 weeks’ gestation may be an alternative to routine earlier labor induction to reduce stillbirth rates among certain women without causing increased neonatal morbidity, according to researchers.

Among women with a history depression, risk for postpartum depression was greater for those whose prior depression was associated with use of hormonal contraception, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Women with Medicaid experienced significantly longer new patient wait times for obstetrics and gynecology appointments compared with those with commercial insurance, according to a national mystery caller study.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an unsigned order putting on hold recent lower court rulings that would have restricted access to — or banned entirely — the abortion drug mifepristone.

Considering self-managed abortion with medication was common before accessing care at abortion clinics, particularly among women with access issues or at-home care preferences, according to a survey study published in JAMA Network Open.

Adolescents seeking an abortion demonstrated comparable accuracy in estimating gestational duration as older age groups, according to a research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics.

In the U.S., surgical approach was the single strongest predictor of total costs for an outpatient hysterectomy for benign indications, according to study results published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.