Contraceptive Technology Update – February 1, 2025
February 1, 2025
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Some States Upend Maternal Mortality Committees and Investigations
Maternal mortality review committees are facing changes that could affect how maternal deaths are investigated and reported. This could lead to fewer initiatives to lower maternal mortality and morbidity rates and also mask could increases in abortion-ban states.
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How Are Maternal Deaths Counted and Investigated?
Determining a city, state, or country’s maternal mortality rate is challenging and can be a controversial process. It depends on the time frame measured, whether maternal deaths are considered only if there are biomedical causes, or when there are factors related to pregnancy, such as suicides and homicides that would have not occurred if the person had not had a pregnancy.
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California’s Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Show Promise
When California was faced with unacceptably high rates of maternal deaths and disparities among minority patients, the state formed a collaborative to tackle this problem and find solutions.
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Contraceptive Implant Can Lead to Weight Gain, But It Is Not Medically Concerning
Clinicians providing contraceptive counseling should be aware of recent research showing that young people can experience weight gain when using hormonal implants, when compared with young people using some other types of contraceptives.
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Social Issues Are a Big Challenge in Adolescent Contraceptive Access
A decade of failed improvements has shown that money needs to be focused less on a game changer and more on using strategies that work, including those that address social norms.
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Physicians Need Better Information, Training in Miscarriage Management
Many women — maybe even most pregnant patients with miscarriage complications — are not offered a full range of options of the best evidence-based miscarriage management.