Women's Health

President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order to safeguard access to medication abortion and other reproductive health care services following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs. Wade.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Erin D. Michos, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FASE, FASPC, discussed her presentation on sex-based disparities in diabetes and their impact on atherosclerotic CVD and HF.

Use of a gas stove, despite improving household air quality, did not improve gestational BP in pregnant participants in lower-income countries, and contrarily increased BP compared with solid fuel burning stoves, researchers reported.

CHICAGO — Patients aged 55 years or older with low-grade luminal A breast cancer who receive endocrine therapy can safely avoid radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery, according to a prospective study presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Older women with overweight who received cardiotoxic treatment for breast cancer saw a 15% relative CVD risk reduction after following an 8-week time-restricted eating plan, according to research published in JACC: CardioOncology.

Women with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy are 63% more likely to experience a CVD event in the decades after delivery compared with normotensive women, independent of shared risk factors like prepregnancy BMI and parental CVD history.

Women with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy are 63% more likely to experience a CVD event in the decades after delivery compared with normotensive women, independent of shared risk factors like prepregnancy BMI and parental CVD history.

Clinicians and researchers must address pervasive gaps in knowledge and care delivery to reduce sex-based disparities and achieve equity in cardiology care, according to a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association.

The FDA expanded the approval of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan to include treatment of patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who received a prior anti-HER2-based regimen.

Compared with the usual care, self-monitoring of BP did not improve diagnosis of hypertension or control of BP in high-risk pregnant women, according to two trials published in JAMA.