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IUD Perforations Are Rare, but Risk Is Slightly Higher for Nursing Mothers
New research shows that perforation from IUDs is incredibly rare, although the risk is slightly higher with breastfeeding at the time of insertion. Overall, the rate of any perforation was fewer than two per 1,000 person-years.
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Permanent Contraception: How Effective Is it, Really?
In this retrospective cohort study using Medicaid claims data from 2008-2014 in California, the rate of pregnancy was 4.74% after hysteroscopic sterilization among 5,906 women and 5.57% after laparoscopic sterilization among 23,965 women. These rates are higher than reported previously.
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Biden Signs Executive Order Protecting Reproductive Rights
Action aims to protect access to healthcare services, patient privacy.
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Abortion Resources for Patients with Financial and Other Barriers
The following is a list of some nonprofit funds and resources available to pregnant people who live in abortion-ban states and are seeking abortion care that they cannot afford.
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Planned Parenthood Prepares for Abortion Bans, Capacity Increases
Contraceptive Technology Update asked Danika Severino Wynn, CNM, vice president of abortion access at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, how the organization is handling the biggest threat to abortion rights in five decades.
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What Can OB/GYNs Do to Protect Patients — and Themselves?
Faced with new and unprecedented laws banning abortion, physicians need to learn all they can about their states’ laws. -
Reproductive Health Providers Prepare for Increased Capacity
Before voters in Ireland overturned a constitutional abortion ban, people had to travel to England and other places to obtain a safe and legal abortion. Soon, a large proportion of pregnant Americans will face the same choice. -
Case Study of a Pregnant Patient in Texas
A health system in Michigan treated a pregnant patient from Texas. She traveled to Michigan to end her pregnancy when doctors in Texas turned her away despite their acknowledgement that her fetus had a lethal fetal anomaly and would never live. -
With National Abortion Rights Gone, What Is Next for Providers?
Five Supreme Court justices signaled in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization oral arguments they were ready to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, despite nearly five decades of precedent upholding abortion care as a constitutional right. -
Research Suggests Need for Improved Abdominal Pain Screening
When adolescent females present at EDs with abdominal pain, they are inconsistently diagnosed through a gynecological history and pelvic exam. Sometimes, this can lead to the wrong treatment, which suggests a need for comprehensive sexual and gynecological health intake, according to researchers.