Menstrual Cycle

Women with endometriosis wait on average 7 to 10 years to receive an accurate diagnosis, often after seeing multiple specialists while living with debilitating menstrual pain or infertility.

Clinicians must focus on the experiences, communication needs and consequences of structural racism to improve mortality and morbidity rates for postpartum Black women, researchers reported in O&G Open.

The FDA announced it has commissioned an independent literature review and internal bench laboratory study to evaluate metals in tampons after a recent study suggested tampons sold in the U.S. tested for the presence of toxic metals.

In the U.S., the average age of menarche is continuing to decrease, highlighting the importance of providing menstrual products for women and girls in all school bathrooms and public buildings to alleviate period poverty.

Age at menarche has fallen among U.S. women during the past 55 years while time to menstrual cycle regularity has increased, both troubling signs that indicate worsening health outcomes over time, researchers reported.

Preliminary data show that an investigational hormone-free monthly vaginal contraceptive device successfully blocked sperm in a small open-label study recently published in Contraception.

SAN FRANCISCO — Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine in the first vs. last half of the menstrual cycle was associated with vaccine-related cycle length changes, according to a presentation at the ACOG Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA — Two common reproductive health conditions, dysmenorrhea and polycystic ovary syndrome, are associated with increasing CVD risk in women, according to research presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Having COVID-19 was associated with a small change in menstrual cycle length like that observed with COVID-19 vaccination, with changes resolving within the next cycle, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Menstrual cycle irregularity and age at menarche were significantly associated with parameters of cardiometabolic health in early adulthood among a mostly Black cohort of young women, researchers reported.