Women's Health

Women who maintained a more pro-inflammatory diet before menopause and in early perimenopause had increased risk for future fractures, according to data from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation.

For medicine to advance, entrenched paradigms must yield to new evidence. The widely held belief that menopausal hormone therapy causes breast cancer, and thus should never be given to breast cancer survivors, must be reassessed.

More than ever before, women today may have more information — and misinformation — about menopause.

Newborn drug testing for low-risk patients was ordered by clinicians more frequently for Black vs. white newborns both before and after legalization of recreational cannabis use, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

NEW ORLEANS — Elevated levels of high-sensitivity troponin I precede the development of preeclampsia, and the marker may have potential for “grading” risk in pregnant women, researchers reported.

Insurance status substantially mediated racial and ethnic inequities among women with advanced-stage cervical cancer, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Covis Pharma Group has submitted a response to the presiding officer’s report on the FDA advisory committee hearing on the proposal to withdrawal approval for a preterm birth prevention drug, according to a press release.

Nearly two-thirds of midlife women reported a history of intimate partner violence, and that experience was associated with increased odds of clinical insomnia, according to a cross-sectional study published in Menopause.

Estimates of lifetime quality-adjusted life-years lost due to gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis were substantially higher among women than among men in 2018, researchers found.

The FDA updated mammography regulations to require facilities to inform patients about their breast density, improve oversight and enforcement of facilities and aid physicians to better categorize and assess mammograms.