Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Despite being liberalized in scores of countries over recent decades, women’s access to abortion remains a precarious right globally with numerous countries restricting the procedure or…
Tag: Obstetrics & gynaecology
Babies born after fertility treatment have higher risk of heart defects, results suggest
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The risk of being born with a major heart defect is 36% higher in babies who were conceived after assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro…
Unaffordable food putting moms-to-be at risk, research shows
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Pregnant women who have limited access to affordable, nutritious, and healthy foods have a higher chance of developing both physical and mental health problems. New research…
Crossing state lines to get an abortion is a new legal minefield, with courts to decide if there’s a right to travel
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right…
Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations may increase care engagement and quality among pregnant and postpartum patients
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found that Medicaid ACOs in Massachusetts were associated with increases in prenatal and postpartum office visits, postpartum depression screenings, and timely postpartum…
U.S. births continue to fall, dropping by 17% since 2007
Final government data finds the number of U.S. births falling by 2% last year compared to 2022, continuing a decades-long decline. Overall, annual U.S. birth numbers have fallen by 17%…
Ovarian cancer is hard to detect—focusing on these four symptoms can help with diagnosis
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ovarian cancers are often found when they are already advanced and hard to treat. Researchers have long believed this was because women first experienced symptoms when…
Evidence-based information combats misleading and false claims about the anti-Mullerian hormone test
Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich from Pexels Researchers in Australia have found that when women are given accurate information about a test that indicates the number of eggs in their ovaries, they…
Some companies are overinflating value of umbilical cord blood banking to expectant parents, experts warn
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Some private UK biobanks may be misleading expectant parents about the value of storing umbilical cord blood to treat life-threatening diseases that may arise in their…
Some have called this area a birthing ‘desert.’ A nurse midwife is working to change that
Credit: SHVETS production from Pexels Jeanine Valrie Logan sat in traffic for nearly two hours while she was in labor with her third child. Logan was determined to have her…
