Maternal Health

Healio’s Women in Allergy initiative aims to advance the work of women in the field of allergy while also providing essential insights into how allergy and asthma concerns can affect women’s health.

Women with primary hyperparathyroidism have similar pregnancy rates, maternal outcomes and neonatal outcomes as those without primary hyperparathyroidism, according to study data.

While attending a conference in Canada, Sarah A. Bendien, MD, a respiratory physician at Haga Teaching Hospital in The Hague, Netherlands, realized the way asthma and pregnancy care were organized in her home country was not ideal.

Gestational weight gain that exceeded National Academy of Medicine guidelines occurred among 75% of pregnant women who were TRICARE beneficiaries and gave birth in 2018 or 2019, according to findings published in Obesity.

Fidelma Dunne, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPI, describes herself as a wife, mother, grandmother, sister and daughter who draws satisfaction from her family and from her career in endocrinology.

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.

Black Maternal Health Week is observed April 11 to 17.

Risk for maternal mortality for Black women in the U.S. is double that of white women. Barriers to improving maternal health outcomes for Black women stem from years of structural racism and bias, according to Kimberly Gregory, MD, MPH.

Black women tend to prefer to see Black obstetric providers during pregnancy due to past experiences of racism and discrimination, according to a presenter at The Pregnancy Meeting.

Pregnant patients with lupus or antiphospholipid syndrome have a higher risk for preterm birth, although immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in general are “only weakly associated” with adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to data.