Sexual Health News

The FDA has approved Vivjoa — the first medication for recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis — for use in permanently infertile and postmenopausal women, according to a Mycovia Pharmaceuticals press release.

Among pregnant women hospitalized for delivery, those who were incarcerated had higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes and medical conditions, according to a cross-sectional analysis in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Women exposed to childhood sexual and emotional abuse had a greater risk for developing multiple sclerosis, according to a prospective cohort study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

A nurse-led multidisciplinary initiative targeted at providers and medical staff doubled the number of patients who scheduled a follow-up routine visit for HIV preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.

The years-long surge in STDs in the United States continued in 2020 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and there are indications that cases are still increasing, the CDC warned Tuesday.

One in four women aged younger than 50 years reported at least one experience of intimate partner violence, with 13% having experienced it within the past year, according to an analysis published in The Lancet.

Current evidence does not support dehydroepiandrosterone use to improve women’s menopausal symptoms, sexual health and overall well-being, and long-term use may lead to estrogenic adverse events, according to a review article.

Primary care clinicians accounted for a small proportion of abortion providers in the United States in 2019, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Having a history of spontaneous abortion increased the risk for gestational diabetes in a retrospective cohort of pregnant Chinese women, as did a history of both spontaneous and induced abortion.

Intrauterine devices and tubal ligation were similarly effective in preventing pregnancy, although the rate of complications was lower with intrauterine contraception, findings of a retrospective cohort study showed.