Women’s Health & OB/GYN News

In our prior blog post, we discussed the frequent need to separate, from a legal and financial perspective, the real property from the practice in order to consummate a practice transaction with a private equity buyer.

A significant number of Medicaid-insured infants infected with HIV in the first year of their life did not receive postnatal antiretroviral prophylaxis, a study presented at IDWeek showed.

Using a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system device to prevent pregnancy increased risk for breast cancer among women living in Denmark aged 15 to 49 years, according to a research letter published in JAMA.

The FDA accepted a new drug application for elinzanetant, a nonhormonal treatment for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause, according to an industry press release.

Miscarriage care is often suboptimal for women in Canada experiencing early pregnancy loss and providers should be aware of maternal psychological effects to provide compassionate assessment, management and follow-up, researchers reported.

Among younger women in the Middle East, those with overweight or obesity were more likely to have hypertension, diabetes and pregnancy-related issues than those without it, according to data from the ANCORS-YW study.

For pregnant women on bed rest, a foam roller intervention improved lower limb venous blood flow compared with controls, mitigating deep vein thrombosis risk and muscle atrophy, researchers reported.

Among pregnancies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, those with small for gestational age infants were significantly more likely to demonstrate increased perivillous fibrin deposition in the placenta, according to data.

Women with endometriosis do not have a higher risk for COVID-19 infection nor worsened symptoms with mRNA vaccinations, but may experience temporary increases in dysmenorrhea, according to findings published in Reproductive Sciences.

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