Reproductive Health News

Adolescent and young adult women who initiated the etonogestrel contraceptive implant experienced small weight changes over 3 years similar to women who received depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, researchers reported.

From 2012 to 2022, prenatal cannabis use increased across race, ethnicity and age groups for pregnant women in Northern California, where cannabis was legalized in 2016 and legal cannabis sales began in 2018, according to a research letter.

Nipocalimab resulted in more live births at 32 weeks’ gestation or later without fetal anemia or intrauterine transfusion for pregnancies at risk for early-onset severe hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn, researchers reported.

When the Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022, abortion clinics in Wisconsin closed the same day, upending how OB/GYN residents in the state would receive abortion training.

BMI in the overweight or obese range for both women and men during preconception or early pregnancy was linked to time to pregnancy success and miscarriage risk, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have a higher likelihood of experiencing infertility and subfertility, which can harm mental health and trigger stress, but not everyone with this disorder will require assisted reproduction to conceive.

Women with Spanish language preferences strongly preferred prenatal care clinicians with the highest level of Spanish language proficiency along with positive clinician-patient interpersonal dynamics, researchers reported.

The number of congenital syphilis-related stillbirths increased annually from 2016 to 2022 in the U.S. while the proportion of cases resulting in stillbirth remained stable, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Exposure to air pollution over a half-decade increased the risk for infertility in men, the results of a nationwide cohort study published in BMJ showed.

Tubal sterilization rates in women rose in the U.S. after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, results from research letter published in JAMA revealed.