Women’s Health & OB/GYN News

Building community partnerships, having community specialists within a care team and using screening tools are all necessary steps to identifying and addressing social needs, according to experts.

How does a physician “retire well”? That answer, unsurprisingly, has been changing over time. Historically, physicians were inclined toward an early retirement, hanging up their white coats in their 50s or early 60s.

Among Hispanic women, gestational hypertension was associated with decreased processing speed and executive functioning after age 45 years, according to results of an analysis published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Saruparib conferred clinically impactful treatment outcomes among adults with breast cancer who harbor certain genetic mutations, according to data presented at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

Parents of very low-birth-weight premature infants are more likely to use mental health care in the first year after discharge from the NICU than families who do not have a premature infant, according to a study.

Sentinel lymph node biopsy may be omitted in certain patients with early-stage breast cancer, according to findings presented at American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting.

More than two-thirds of pharmacists in California surveyed said they would be willing to prescribe medication abortion, if legally permitted, but more than half reported lacking confidence in their knowledge of abortion drugs.

Mistreatment by health care professionals during childbirth is “common” in the U.S., with one in eight women with a live birth in 2020 reporting mistreatment, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Women with endometriosis had higher rates of health care utilization and were significantly more likely to experience upper gastrointestinal and dyspeptic symptoms, according to preliminary data in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Patients with immune-mediated diseases have higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia and pre-term delivery, with lupus and systemic sclerosis conferring the largest risks, according to data published in Rheumatology.