Women’s Health & OB/GYN News

Options for endometriosis management range from surgical excision to medications to general lifestyle modifications, such as diet changes and stress reduction.

ATLANTA — Pregnant women with fewer economic resources may still be at elevated risk for CVD despite a low score on a CVD risk calculator, researchers reported.

Delays in endometriosis diagnosis and care may be due to the normalization of female pelvic pain, lack of endometriosis awareness among both patients and providers, and health care access issues.

BOSTON — “We should be embracing [AI] and trying to make this a priority to get this right, because I don’t know any alternative to get us out of this frustration right now outside of this technology,” Eric Topol, MD, said.

Women, regardless of whether they use oral contraceptives, may be less likely to develop musculotendinous injuries compared with men, according to published results.

Use of immune checkpoint inhibitors for pregnant women with cancer may be safer than previously thought, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Too often, heart attack signals are missed or misdiagnosed in women, not just by patients and providers, but by first responders as well.

Numbers of tubal ligation and vasectomy procedures increased after Dobbs for young adults, with a substantial increase observed among women vs. men, according to a research letter published in JAMA Health Forum.

Breast cancer survivors aged 40 years or younger without pathogenic variants had a low second primary breast cancer diagnosis risk in the first 10 years after initial cancer diagnosis, researchers reported in JAMA Oncology.

Black Maternal Health Week is observed April 11 to 17.