Ob/Gyn and Women's Health News

• AHA Statement on Impact of Major Life Events on Physical Activity Major life events, such as getting married, having a baby, or retiring from work, can lead to lower physical activity levels and negatively affect cardiovascular health, the AHA says.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• Majority of Patients Prefer In-Person Visits to Telehealth: Survey But two thirds of respondents are willing to do at least some video visits, and most people with telehealth experience would do it again.
  WebMD Health News, December 01, 2021
• Cancer Survivors Want Their Sexy Back…but Are Afraid to Ask Lack of attention to sexual health threatens quality of life for cancer survivors. 'Oncologists need to recognize that this is an issue,' says one.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• Stress in Utero: COVID Chaos and Babies' Future Health The impact of unusually high in-utero stress might persist for decades in some U.S. babies born during the pandemic.
  Undark, December 01, 2021
• Abortion Rights at Stake in Historic Supreme Court Arguments The stakes for the fate of the Roe v. Wade decision have never been greater as the most conservative court of the past 40 years weighs whether to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.
  Associated Press, December 01, 2021
• Booster Counteracts Waning Immunity of Initial Pfizer Doses A large study shows that the chances of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the first 2 months after the Pfizer booster drop an estimated 86% compared with having only the two primary shots.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• Celebrity Surgeon Dr Oz Announces Run for Senate Seat The TV host is running as a Republican in Pennsylvania; race is to succeed retiring Senator Pat Toomey.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• 'Top' Surgery for Trans Youth: Advance or Dangerous Medicine? Doctor uses historical examples of questionable medical interventions to draw parallels with gender-affirming, so-called masculinizing chest surgery performed on many transgender youth today.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• FDA Panel Backs First Pill for COVID-19 by a Small Margin Although some panel members backed the drug for emergency use, there were still a lot of concerns because of a lack of safety and efficacy data.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2021
• Fauci: Omicron 'Very Different From Other Variants' An abundance of mutations make the new variant very unpredictable, but booster shots may still offer effective "cross-protection," Fauci said.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2021
• Wearable Fitness Trackers Could Detect COVID Before You Do Scientists designed an algorithm that detected 4 out of 5 infections in a new study.
  WebMD Health News, November 30, 2021
• Single-Dose HPV Vaccination Highly Effective Only 15% of girls globally are vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), but single-dose vaccination could pave the way for much better infection control, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2021
• Congress OKs Expansive New Maternal Care Program It's called the Momnibus -- the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021 (HR 959) -- with 12 bills addressing 'every dimension of the maternal health crisis in America.'
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2021
• Nurses Worldwide Call on UN to Stop 'Vaccine Apartheid' Nurses' unions representing more than 2.5 million healthcare workers in 28 countries filed a UN complaint citing inequity in the creation and distribution of COVID vaccines in disadvantaged countries.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2021
• What We Know -- and Don't Know -- About the Omicron COVID Variant Health experts break down what we know -- and don't yet know -- about the newly discovered Omicron COVID-19 variant.
  WebMD Health News, November 29, 2021
• 4 in 10 Fractures in Breast Cancer Patients Are Pathologic In a large cohort of women with advanced breast cancer, about 40% of fractures were cancer-related, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2021
• Omicron Updates From Around the World Despite the unknowns, vaccinated people seem to be faring better against Omicron than unvaccinated people, said Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
  WebMD Health News, November 29, 2021
• Alert FDA Approves Imaging Drug for Detecting Ovarian Cancer Lesions The tumor-targeted agent pafolacianine causes ovarian cancer lesions to 'light up like stars against a night sky' and improve surgeons' ability to locate cancerous tissue.
  FDA Approvals, November 29, 2021
• Black Tech Founders Want to Change the Culture of Healthcare Just as Uber Eats and Grubhub revolutionized food delivery, Black tech entrepreneurs want to change the way patients connect with doctors.
  Kaiser Health News, November 29, 2021
• Study Finds Healthcare Lacks Female Leadership, Opportunities Although they represent a slight majority of the US population and a large majority of the medical workforce, women are underrepresented on healthcare leadership teams, a new study finds.
  Medscape Medical News, November 29, 2021