Category: Obstetrics and gynaecology

Women who began the process of medical abortion at home after 12 weeks of pregnancy…

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended linzagolix (marketed as Yselty) for…

Abortion reform in Poland seems much less likely after the narrow 12 July defeat of…

In 2023 fewer graduates of US medical schools applied to residency programmes in states that…

The first ever parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma in the UK has found “shockingly poor…

Women from poorer backgrounds are less likely to have an epidural during labour than women…

Over 50% of women will develop genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) when they transition from…

People who have been harmed by pelvic mesh or exposure to valproate in utero should…

Kamila had dearly wanted to have a child. The 27 year old was happily engaged…

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has demanded improvements to maternity services run by South Tees…

A new once daily, non-hormonal pill that reduces hot flushes and night sweats caused by…

A consultant obstetrician who sterilised a woman without her consent in Northern Ireland has been…

On 8 December the Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked permission for an abortion that a…

In Canada, genocidal policies and systems have devastated Indigenous peoples’ determinants of health.1 For example,…

Understaffing and triage delays that led patients to give up waiting and discharge themselves have…

Stillbirths and neonatal deaths rose across the UK in 2021, after seven years of annual…

Care Quality Commission inspectors have downgraded the two maternity services at County Durham and Darlington…

Mexico’s Supreme Court has repealed a law criminalising abortion, in the latest cause for celebration…

The High Court in London has made a group litigation order allowing around 200 women…

Tests for the anti-müllerian hormone (AMH) are being marketed as measures of fertility using claims…

New York gynaecologist Robert Hadden, 64, who sexually abused hundreds of patients over decades at…

Magaly Blas fell in love with the Amazon rainforest in 1999 as a medical student…

At the midpoint to the 2030 deadline for reaching the United Nations’ sustainable development goals…

A simple intervention to detect and treat postpartum haemorrhage could dramatically cut maternal mortality and…

Preterm birth rates have not changed in any region in the world in the past…

The number of UK adults living in hygiene poverty, unable to afford to buy items…

Women in labour who need ongoing pain relief but do not want an epidural should…

The US Supreme Court ruled late on Friday 21 April that mifepristone, a drug used…

Emergency contraceptive pills work by inhibiting or delaying ovulation and are not abortifacients, the US…

Maternal policies developed by NHS bodies should target minority ethnic health inequalities and a national…

From broadsheet newspapers to the Today programme, there was fulsome coverage of the recent report…

We acknowledge the concerns raised by Quigley, in her role as chair of the International…

Four doctors in Italy, all of them “conscientious objectors,” have received suspended prison sentences after…

More than a third of the 3143 counties in the US are maternity “deserts” without…

Loder’s outlining of less-than-ideal contemporary efforts to tackle public health1 are laudable.1The systematic review and…

Doctors in Hungary must provide women with “a clearly identifiable indication of fetal vital signs”…

Haiti’s economic crisis, growing lawlessness, and escalating gang violence are causing its health system to…

In 2018 a reproductive health organisation in Kenya found that anti-abortion advocates had put the…

Lakshmi was due to deliver her baby in a week, so her in-laws called an…

Specific teaching and assessments on women’s health will become mandatory for all graduating medical students…

The US president issued an executive order on 8 July in an attempt to protect…

Medical bodies in the United States have described their fearfulness at the unfolding situation facing…

The US Supreme Court has overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, ending women’s 50…

Pregnant women should have the opportunity to take part in clinical trials of medicines that…

The views of over 100 000 women and 400 organisations will help to set an…

A combination of difficulty in accessing healthcare during the pandemic and ongoing shortages of certain…

Mexico has decriminalised abortion after the country’s Supreme Court ruled that prosecuting abortion cases was…

Doctors and campaigners have raised concerns over proposed NICE guidance that recommends that inducing labour…

Urgent action is needed to tackle systemic biases contributing to unequal mortality outcomes in ethnic…

How did it happen that a product approved with little evidence of long term safety…