Background Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea is a disorder characterized by cessation of menstrual cycles in the absence of organic disease. In most patients, it occurs in adult life after a stressful…
Background Almost one-half of women having an abortion in the United States have had a previous procedure, which highlights a failure to provide adequate preventive care. Provision of intrauterine devices…
Background Little is known about unintended pregnancy risk and current contraceptive use among women ≥45 years old in the United States. Objectives The purpose of this study was to describe…
The Problem Clinicians may be unaware that industry payments to physicians are now publicly searchable under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Furthermore, the extent of industry’s financial involvement in subspecialty…
Midurethral sling procedures are minimally invasive surgeries for stress urinary incontinence that use a trocar system to place a narrow ribbon of polypropylene mesh under the midurethra. The peer-reviewed scientific…
Prescription and over-the-counter medication use during pregnancy and lactation is exceedingly common. There are many available resources to gather information and guide patient counseling. These include primary literature, online resources,…
Objective To systematically review the literature on the association between obesity and endometrial hyperplasia or cancer in premenopausal women. Data Sources We searched the bibliographic databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, and…
Noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) for fetal chromosome defects has high sensitivity and specificity but is not fully diagnostic. In response to a desire to provide more information to individual women…
Significant public health disparities exist surrounding teen and unplanned pregnancy in the United States. Women of color and those with lower education and socioeconomic status are at much greater risk…
Related article, page 727 Aneuploidy is a major cause of perinatal loss and long-term childhood morbidity. Since the first report of an association between low maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein and fetal…
