Reproductive Health News

Dostarlimab plus carboplatin significantly increased PFS among women with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer, according to study results presented at Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer.

The addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy significantly extended PFS for women with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer, according to study results presented at Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer.

Consumer Reports in December warned of high levels of lead and cadmium in certain dark chocolate bar brands. These heavy metals, even in small concentrations, can have adverse consequences for pregnant people and developing fetuses.

For more than a decade, the medical community as a whole, and particularly the field of rheumatology, has been trying to move away from opioids for the management of chronic pain — with varying degrees of success.

Podcasts may be an effective form of childbirth education, according to a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Losing the constitutional right to abortion is associated with a 10% increase in mental distress prevalence among women of reproductive age, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Although about half of primary care physicians who treat Medicaid patients offered oral contraceptives, just 10% provided longer-acting birth control methods like intrauterine devices, according to researchers.

From 2011 to 2018, neonatal Down syndrome diagnoses increased more in states that banned abortion at 20 weeks’ gestation compared with states without such bans, according to a population-based cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

MRI-determined placental volume, perfusion and visceral adiposity in early pregnancy were significantly associated with gestational diabetes, according to a prospective study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

The maternal death rate significantly increased in 2021, with rates among Black people more than double that of their white counterparts, according to data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.