An Israeli nationwide study of more than 600,000 births, led by a researcher at Bar-Ilan University's Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, reveals consistent links between high and low temperatures and low fetal birth weight, particularly exposure to heat during the second and third trimesters. Published in the...
A systemic review and meta-analysis in the Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics has found epidemiological evidence that endometriosis and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are connected. Women with endometriosis are roughly twice as likely to develop IBS than women without endometriosis, according to the review. The literature search...
A study has found that women with a diagnosis of endometriosis have significantly greater depressive symptomatology, sexual distress, and catastrophizing than age-paired healthy women. The study in the journal Health Care for Women International, which assessed psychological and cognitive factors implicated in pain experience in women...
Women with undiagnosed endometriosis will have difficulty falling pregnant without IVF, according to a University of Queensland study. UQ School of Public Health researcher, Dr Katrina Moss, said women whose endometriosis went undiagnosed until after they began fertility treatment ended up doing more cycles, used treatments...
According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, twin pregnancies after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and advanced maternal age are independently associated with adverse obstetric outcomes, and their coexistence may aggravate the obstetric risk. The analysis included 16,879,728 pregnant women aged 20 to 49 years....
For an embryo to survive, it must attach to the lining of the uterus within days of conception. However, if this lining, called the endometrium, is too thin, the embryo can't latch on. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering have developed a new...
A same-day blood test that can rule out preeclampsia in pregnant women is being rolled out across the National Health Service (NHS) in England. The new assessment is the first of its kind in the world to exclude the life-threatening condition for both pregnant women and...
Due to the rarity of the disease and its variability in clinical presentation, the condition is hardly recognized by some health care professionals, leading to a delayed diagnosis. In cases of perineal cyclical pain, with or without previous perineal damage, clinicians should consider perineal endometriosis, according...
Drugs routinely used during fertility treatments to release eggs do not increase the risk of developing breast cancer, new research has shown. Researchers from King's College London, in partnership with King's Fertility, analysed studies involving 1.8 million women undergoing fertility treatments. These women were followed up...
A systematic review of the effectiveness of dietary interventions to treat endometriosis in the journal Reproductive Sciences has found a potential benefit of the Mediterranean diet and antioxidant supplementation on endometriosis-associated pain. The review also concluded that certain patients with endometriosis suffering from gastrointestinal symptoms might...
