Women’s Health & OB/GYN News

Women treated for breast cancer exhibited highly prevalent and distressing sexual health concerns, according to results of the WISH-BREAST study presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

U.S. News & World Report announced its 2024-2025 Best Hospitals rankings Tuesday.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital was named the top hospital in the U.S. for OB/GYN care, according to the 2024-2025 Best Hospitals rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

From 2005 to 2019 in Canada, type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes prevalence in pregnancy steadily increased and is expected to continue to rise as more women with overweight conceive, researchers reported.

Fetal growth rate is higher for women with gestational diabetes in the third trimester, and that accelerated growth rate may contribute to an increased likelihood for overweight among children, according to study data from Denmark.

As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, Shama Rathi, MD, spent her time treating children for mental health issues, but she discovered that most of what she was seeing started with a lack of mental health care for their mothers.

Women who undergo allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation can get pregnant and have healthy children, according to results of a retrospective study conducted in Germany.

Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution was associated with increased risk for children developing cerebral palsy, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Network Open.

An individualized opioid-prescription protocol with shared decision-making was associated with similar pain reports as fixed-quantity opioid prescriptions but with fewer prescribed opioids at hospital discharge following cesarean births.

As their parents age, many of our physician clients have asked us about long-term care insurance.