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Adjuvant Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy in Hospitalized Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
In this meta-analysis, all-cause mortality, ICU admission, and incidence of adverse events were similar in patients who received corticosteroids compared to standard care. However, the corticosteroid therapy group recorded a lower incidence of progression to mechanical ventilation.
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Fezolinetant Tablets (Veozah)
Fezolinetant can be prescribed to treat moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms caused by menopause.
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Preconception Hepatitis B and Congenital Heart Disease
A new study suggests that both women and men who have had hepatitis B infection prior to conceiving offspring are more likely to give birth to children with congenital heart disease.
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Maternal, Fetal, and Infant Implications of a Positive Syphilis Screening During Pregnancy
Although syphilis screening during pregnancy is effective in identifying maternal syphilis, it is not without consequences. False-positive syphilis testing can result in unwarranted antibiotic therapy; re-screening based on risk is not always consistent, and among pregnant women who truly test positive to syphilis, treatment is not always optimized to prevent congenital syphilis.
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Barriers to Urogynecologic Care
There is a paucity of literature on barriers to urogynecologic care in racial/ethnic minorities. Continued evaluation is needed to better understand the unique barriers to urogynecologic care in these populations.
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Ovarian Torsion: What Is the Best Surgical Management Strategy?
In this national retrospective cohort study from 2008 to 2020, there were 1,791 surgeries for adnexal torsion, with 30.3% involving ovarian conservation and the remainder undergoing oophorectomy. The proportion of oophorectomies compared to ovarian conservation decreased slightly over the study period (average decrease, -1.6% per year; 95% confidence interval, -3.0%- to -0.22%).
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Lawsuits, Complaints Detail Medical Terror Some Pregnant Patients Face
Since states like Missouri and Texas rushed to ban abortion, using language that is vague and with narrow exceptions, hospitals and physicians across the South and in other areas with abortion bans are denying health-saving care to pregnant patients in crisis.
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Medicaid Beneficiaries Often Lack Primary Care Access to Contraception, Especially LARC
A study of more than 250,000 primary care physicians revealed that fewer than half prescribed hormonal birth control methods and only 10% provided intrauterine devices or implants to patients with Medicaid coverage.
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Physicians Anonymously Tell Their Stories in New Study
It is tough to have a uterus in the post-Dobbs United States. The physicians who treat pregnant women are outraged and horrified, according to their anonymous stories in a new report: Care Post-Roe: Documenting cases of poor-quality care since the Dobbs decision.
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Abortion Bans End Standard Pregnancy Care in Large Swaths of the United States
When South Carolina and North Carolina passed abortion bans in May 2023, they were among the last states in the Southeast to end standard pregnancy and abortion care. Standard abortion care for women in most of the South and parts of the Midwest will now be denied to all but a small percentage of people. Those who want or need abortion care a couple of months into pregnancy will need to travel hundreds of miles to a state where abortion care is legal.