Reproductive Health

Pregnancies among patients with Sjögren’s syndrome demonstrate “very good prognoses” for both the parent and fetus, and do not reflect an increased risk for adverse outcomes, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Breastfeeding has lasting beneficial effects on cardiometabolic health, including lowering the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, for mothers and obesity in their children, according to a life course epidemiologist.

BALTIMORE — Repeated use of water-based lubricants did not appear to significantly alter the vaginal microbiome of premenopausal and postmenopausal women for up to 4 weeks after application, researchers reported.

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Initiative decision in June 2022 had, and continues to have, broad implications for reproductive health rights nationwide.

The Healio Editors compiled news on cardiovascular health for women for National Women’s Health Week.

AUSTIN, Texas — Despite the significant impact that kidney disease and its treatments can have on women’s health, patients admitted knowing very little about it, according to a presenter at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.

Both abortion- and contraception-related internet searches increased from the weeks before and the weeks after the Supreme Court Dobbs decision in June 2022, according to a retrospective cross-sectional study published in JAMA Health Forum.

Mehret Birru Talabi, MD, PhD, associate program director of the rheumatology fellowship training program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, spoke with Healio about challenges patients with rheumatology face with fertility, how their RA symptoms are affected during pregnancy, and what they can to help improve their symptoms after giving birth.

From 2017 to 2021, barriers to reproductive health care increased, with the largest increases among women from historically disadvantaged populations, according to study data published in JAMA Network Open.

Losing the constitutional right to abortion is associated with a 10% increase in mental distress prevalence among women of reproductive age, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.