Compared with women who are not pregnant, those who are pregnant have no significant difference in postoperative complications after general surgery, according to a retrospective cohort study. Medscape Medical News …read more
A series of newly published studies has examined the role that sex and gender plays in autism, providing new insights into the male bias of the condition. …read more
The bill bans abortions at 20 weeks of gestation based on the premise that fetuses that young can experience pain — a premise that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists calls untrue. Medscape Medical News …read more
SAN FRANCISCO – A minority of abortion providers who participated in a recent survey have knowledge of and experience with third-trimester terminations in cases involving lethal fetal anomalies. Of… …read more
Magnetic resonance imaging is already used in breast cancer screening, but a new study suggests that an MRI imaging feature may have a significant link to breast cancer risk. …read more
A new nitinol intrauterine device causes less discomfort during insertion than a copper device, and women are more likely to continue using it, a new study has shown. Medscape Medical News …read more
SAN DIEGO – Iron supplementation, especially in pregnancy, improved toddler communication and social behaviors at 18 months in a large Chinese study. “Iron deficiency in infancy is associated with… …read more
The percentage of postpartum women who filled codeine prescriptions significantly declined after regulatory bodies announced that breastfeeding by mothers taking the opioids may cause infant death,… …read more
New article in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology urges obstetricians to advocate for change to eliminate health care injustice in access to elective tubal sterilizationCurrent U.S. …read more
University of Utah anthropologist Karen Kramer explores the moment when ancient societies adopted the practice of ‘taking a village to raise a child’ in research published in the Journal of Human… …read more