These States Have Banned Gender-Affirming Care
(MedPage Today) -- Interactive map highlights exemptions as well as penalties that healthcare providers face (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - May 10, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Colorado Becomes First State to Ban So-Called Abortion Pill Reversals
(MedPage Today) -- In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Katie Laven, RN, answers calls from people who've started the two-pill medication abortion regimen and want to stop the process.
"They are just in turmoil," said Laven, who works at the Abortion... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - May 7, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
How to Spot Anti-Abortion 'Crisis Pregnancy' Centers
(MedPage Today) -- I had just finished presenting my ob/gyn chief Grand Rounds on adolescent pregnancy when I saw a raised hand from an audience participant.
"You know the resources slide you listed? A few of those clinics aren't clinics at all... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - May 2, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
More Men Are Expressing Interest in Vasectomy After SCOTUS Abortion Decision
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Vasectomy consults more than doubled in the first 3 months after the Supreme Court decision overturning national abortion rights, according to data from one large health system.
From June 24 -- the day the Dobbs... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - May 1, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Mifepristone Battle Could Signal 'Pandora's Box' of Cases Against FDA Drugs
(MedPage Today) -- In this exclusive video, Michele Bratcher Goodwin, JD, and Lawrence Gostin, JD, discuss the implications of the mifepristone (Mifeprex) case before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is centered on a Texas judge's decision... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 28, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Who Are the Doctors Suing FDA Over the Abortion Pill?
(MedPage Today) -- Despite the high-profile nature of its case challenging FDA's approval of the abortion drug mifepristone (Mifeprex), the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) remains something of a black box, and four individual physicians... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 20, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
The Mifepristone Battle: The Supreme Court Steps In
(MedPage Today) -- On Friday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito put on hold rulings by a federal district court judge in Texas and by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that would have severely restricted access to mifepristone (Mifeprex), an... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 17, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Texas Mifepristone Case Could Lead to Other Drug Approval Lawsuits, Experts Say
(MedPage Today) -- As the nation awaits the final outcome of two federal cases -- one in Texas and one in Washington state -- involving the abortion drug mifepristone (Mifeprex), legal observers are raising the possibility that the Texas case... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 14, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Tranexamic Acid May Not Prevent Hemorrhage After C-Section
(MedPage Today) -- Prophylactic tranexamic acid (TXA) during cesarean delivery did not lead to a lower risk of maternal death or blood transfusion, a randomized trial found.
Among 11,000 women in 31 U.S. hospitals assigned to TXA or placebo after... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 12, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
ACOG Responds to Clashing Abortion Pill Rulings
(MedPage Today) -- Leaders of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and legal experts weighed in on the implications of a federal judge's decision to suspend the FDA's decades-old approval of mifepristone (Mifeprex), the... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 10, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Why People Resist the COVID Vax; Diet and Mortality
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 8, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
FDA Yanks Only Preterm Birth Drug, Effective Immediately
(MedPage Today) -- After a years-long saga, the FDA has withdrawn approval of injectable 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17-OHPC; Makena), which was initially approved over a decade ago to reduce the risk of recurrent preterm birth.
"Effective... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 6, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Pandemic Erased Decline in Scripts for Postpartum Opioids
(MedPage Today) -- A steady downward trend in opioids prescribed to women after giving birth reversed course with the start of the pandemic, a cross-sectional study suggested.
The proportion of women with a filled opioid prescription after delivery... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 3, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Obesity's Impact on Uterine Cancer Risk Greater in Younger Age Groups
(MedPage Today) -- TAMPA, Fla. -- Obesity poses a significantly greater risk of uterine cancer in younger women as compared with their older counterparts, an analysis of a database from Taiwan showed.
The relative risk of uterine cancer in women... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - March 30, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Do Away With 'Lockout' Period in iPLEDGE, FDA Advisors Urge
(MedPage Today) -- An FDA advisory committee on Wednesday voted 17-4 (with one abstention) to recommend removing a "lockout period" from a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for isotretinoin prescribing that requires patients to wait... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - March 29, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
