Women's Health

The NIH recently launched a new study to learn more about glucose changes during pregnancy.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in a Mississippi case that would ban abortions after 15 weeks, The Associated Press reported.

Women with MS and breast cancer experienced decreased overall survival compared with women who had breast cancer but not MS, according to findings from a matched cohort study published in Neurology.

Women demonstrate higher axial spondyloarthritis disease burden, and more peripheral symptoms, than men, according to data published in The Journal of Clinical Rheumatology.

National Women’s Health Week is observed each year, starting on Mother’s Day, to encourage women and girls to take care of their physical and mental health.

Elevated maternal lipids, especially elevated levels of triglycerides, were associated with the development of gestational diabetes, according to new results from a systematic review and meta-analysis.

A post-hoc analysis of the Twirla contraceptive patch showed that it was well tolerated among women with a BMI of 25 to 30 kg/m2 as well as those with a BMI less than 25 kg/m2, according to researchers.

Echocardiographic and clinical differences by sex in older patients with HFpEF.

The mean age for natural menopause and mean reproductive life span both increased for women during a 60-year period from 1959 to 2018, according to a research letter published in JAMA.

The FDA, citing potential “risks to patients and health care personnel,” said it will waive mifepristone’s in-person dispensing requirement during the COVID-19 public health emergency.