Last month, the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) launched a new Patient Safety Bundle addressing perinatal mental health conditions. The current revision addresses gaps in the safety bundle previously released in 2016. Patient [...]
About 60% of women with mood disorders experience premenstrual exacerbation or PME of their mood during the premenstrual phase of their cycle.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) now recommend that all pregnant individuals be vaccinated against COVID-19.
It hasn’t even been a week since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the first emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 infection. Yesterday, Americans started receiving [...]
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now recommends screening for perinatal depression and anxiety, stating that “clinicians screen patients at least once during the perinatal period for depression and anxiety symptoms using [...]
 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now recommends screening for perinatal depression, stating that “clinicians screen patients at least once during the perinatal period for depression and anxiety symptoms using a standard, [...]
We have been writing over the last few years about the growing problem of opioid use and abuse in women of reproductive age. Â Responding to a dramatic increase in the number of women abusing opiates [...]
Some of the most commonly visited posts on our website are related to smoking in pregnant and postpartum women. Â While smoking is a potential problem for all women, rates of tobacco use are higher among [...]
The following post was first published in OB/GYN News. Please see our OB/GYN News archives here. It was almost a year ago that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists came out unequivocally in favor of universal [...]
We are seeing an increasing number of women in our clinic who are using marijuana on a regular basis -- recreationally and medically prescribed -- to help them manage various psychiatric symptoms, including depression and [...]
