This study aimed to explore the relationship between cardiovascular risk enhancers (CVRE) and arterial stiffness (AS) in women with low traditional cardiovacular risk (CVR).
Investing in midwifery education is an investment in health and economic development, as midwives can provide about 90% of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and adolescent health needs
Based on interviews with Israeli mothers during COVID, this article asks: What practices do mothers use to mark and erase their children's disabilities? What practices are marked as good mothering? How do these processes of marking and erasing negotiate classed ideals of normativity for children and mothers? The findings indicated that low-income mothers mark disability to acquire professional support for children's disabilities, claiming this as their ‘proper’ mothering role, whereas middle-class mothers erase disability through intensive mothering, marking it as theirs.
The authors suggest that being denied a desired contraceptive method (downward coercion) may have a more profound negative impact on patients' self-efficacy, self-esteem, and reproductive autonomy. Patient autonomy needs to be safeguarded
The article explores the impact of infertility on the mental health of women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.The article highlights the need for tailored psychological support and interventions.
Academic Medical Centers play a key role in providing comprehensive abortion services, from primary care to complex specialty care, and in training future clinicians in abortion provision. The weekly number of abortions at University of Washington remained stable after Dobbs.
This retrospective cohort study linked primary care prenatal data and intrapartum data from women with singleton pregnancies. With the linked data, the researchers explored the association between the timing of Gestational diabetes screening and macrosomia, Large-for-gestational age, shoulder dystocia and caesarean section.
This study explores the pervasive and multifaceted violence faced by women with disabilities in Nepal, focusing on the ways in which these experiences are shaped by intersecting social hierarchies, including those based on gender, caste, and socioeconomic status. By calling for more targeted and inclusive strategies that prioritise the perspectives and needs of disabled women, this researh argues that the global commitment to “leave no one behind” will be upheld.
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European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Volume 306, March 2025
Artificial intelligence can be useful in gynecologic and obstetric emergencies.
This study has shown that even with imperfect coverage of HPV vaccination targeting preadolescent girls, substantially lower incidence of CIN2+ is already observed. Thus, vaccinating population through organized and publicly funded programme should be encouraged and efforts to increase vaccination coverage should be given.
