Family Planning

DENVER — LGBTQ+ service members reported various barriers in both knowledge of and access to reproductive services while in the military, according to survey results presented at the ASRM Scientific Congress & Expo.

Women oncologists reported a multitude of barriers to family building, including dysfunctional maternity leave and poor education on infertility risk, according to results of a qualitative study published in Cancer.

A questionnaire found that the majority of retina fellows planned to go into a retina-only private practice.

  Healio spoke to Ashley Haggerty, MD, a board certified, fellowship-trained gynecologic oncologist at Hackensack Meridian Medical Group about obesity in endometrial cancer patients.

Women physicians are more likely to experience miscarriage, infertility and pregnancy complications compared with the general population, yet only 8% of survey respondents received education on the risks of delaying pregnancy, data show.

A young woman, newly diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, sits in your office.

Medical students and physicians reported experiencing cultural, organizational, interpersonal and individual barriers to family building, according to results of a qualitative analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

Women in oncology continued to break barriers, unveil new research and accomplish goals in 2023.

Career-associated pressures appeared to influence the timing of childbearing and led to diversions in career trajectories to accommodate family building among women physicians, according to survey results published in JAMA Network Open.

Katherine Terracina, MD, assistant professor of rheumatology with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, spoke with Healio about rheumatoid arthritis in young adults and how early detection from a primary care physician is vital for the best possible treatments.