Obstetrics & gynaecology

Study highlights racial disparities in ovarian cancer risk for women

A new Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology investigated how endometriosis, uterine leiomyomas (also known as fibroids) and a common intervention for these conditions—hysterectomy—changed ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Highly educated Black women experience poorer maternal outcomes

Black mothers with a master's or doctorate degree experienced some of the worst birth outcomes, compared to Black mothers with less education and white mothers with the same or less education, according to a new study. The ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

U.S. suicide rates began to rise again in 2021

In a disappointing finding, a new report shows that suicide rates in America are on the upswing again after a momentary, and minute, decline.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

American Indian women continue to have lower mammography use

The disparity in annual age-adjusted mammography use between American Indian and White women continued but narrowed between 2005 and 2019 due to declines in mammography use in White women, according to a study published online ...

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