Women's Health
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Elagolix curbs heavy bleeding linked to uterine leiomyomas
Oral elagolix was well tolerated and offers a nonsurgical alternative for premenopausal patients.
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Vegan diet may curb hot flashes by altering the gut microbiome
“The targeted and untargeted gut microbiome analysis was robust and revealed important changes in the gut microbiome composition in response to a...
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Early age at first period raises type 2 diabetes risk
“Women with early-life exposures such as early age at menarche need to be further examined for diabetes and prevention research and strategies for...
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Procedures may ease postmenopausal pain better than drugs
Although postmenopausal women initially reported higher mean pain scores upon presentation, they reported more improvement following...
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Underdiagnosed: Iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy
IDA increases a patient’s risk of delivering preterm and developing postpartum depression and puts their infants at a risk for perinatal mortality...
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Osteoarthritis as a Chronic Disease: Maximizing Management in Primary Care
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Avoid anti-HER2 cancer therapies during pregnancy
Exposure to anti-HER2 agents was associated with “severe specific adverse pregnancy and fetal or newborn outcomes compared with exposure to other...
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Insufficient sleep impairs women’s insulin sensitivity
“What we’re seeing is that more insulin is needed to normalize glucose levels in the women under conditions of sleep restriction.”
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Despite effective therapies, fibroid care still lacking
The biggest challenge is to ensure that women can take advantage of the newer minimally invasive therapies.
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PTSD symptoms in women tied to worse heart, brain health
Outcomes of interest were associations of PTSD symptoms with carotid intima media thickness, brain white matter hyperintensity volume, and...
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Low-dose aspirin provokes no flares in patients with IBD during pregnancy
Study provides more data on the safety of aspirin use during pregnancy in patients with IBD.
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Risks quantified in medically optimized pregnancy with lupus
Patients who were not medically optimized for pregnancy were three times more likely to experience preterm birth and preeclampsia.