Women’s Health & OB/GYN News

Any doctor seeing patients has had to field questions unrelated to their specialty.

The FDA approved expanded indications for two HPV tests allowing for the patient to self-collect a vaginal swab in a health care setting when it is not possible for the clinician to collect a cervical specimen, according to a press release.

For those with epilepsy who may become pregnant and their potential offspring, medications must optimize seizure control as well as outcomes for the fetus, according to new guidelines presented in Neurology.

Mean total daily sleep duration was shorter, but wakefulness and awakenings were lower for inpatient vs. outpatient pregnant women, suggesting better sleep characteristics for inpatients despite shorter duration, researchers reported.

The AAP reversed its long-held stance against breastfeeding with HIV, now saying that parents with HIV who wish to breastfeed should be supported in their decision, so long as they are on treatment and virally suppressed.

SAN FRANCISCO — When two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach described the 3x5 victory photo taped to a wall that inspires her to this day, it was not the “win” one might expect.

SAN DIEGO — Measures of pulmonary vascular disease and right ventricular function improved with longer lifetime menses in pulmonary hypertension, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly 20% of women of reproductive age with epithelial ovarian cancer undergo fertility-sparing surgery, which may not negatively affect overall survival, except in the case of high-grade endometrioid tumors, data show.

SAN FRANCISCO — For second-trimester medical abortion, 12- and 24-hour mifepristone-misoprostol regimens produced similar success rates, adverse effects and satisfaction but different times to mifepristone and misoprostol fetal expulsion.

SAN FRANCISCO — TikToks about oral contraceptive health had low quality and reliability of information. Most videos were made by non-health care providers, and adverse effects of contraception was the most common topic, data show.