Biden Plans Abortion Rights Strategy with Democratic Governors
Is abortion currently banned in the United States? It depends on where you reside. In the United States and...
Managing the rise in Hypertension among Pregnant Women
The rates of hypertension among pregnant women have been creeping up for decades. Today, over 8% of pregnant women...
Cervical Cancer: It’s Not Only Preventable But Treatable
Overview Cervical cancer is developed when the cells of the cervix (entrance to the uterus from the vagina) grow...
Management of long-term health in women with PCOS
New research shows the global prevalence of obesity and its contribution to the pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)....
How safe is breast reconstruction during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Cancer is a disease in which some of the body’s cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of...
New insights into the causes of endometriosis could lead to treatments
A recent study illuminates a possible cause of endometriosis and suggests a possible therapeutic strategy.1,2,3 As described in an...
Ovarian Cancer: The new normal- Standards of care before, during and after the pandemic – Part 1
COVID-19 is a severe acute respiratory syndrome that has blighted the world over the last year. The World Health...
The changing landscape of HER2-positive Breast Cancer
For several years we have approached a ‘standard of care’ (SOC) for the treatment of metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer....
A checkpoint inhibitor gains FDA approval in endometrial cancer
On April 22, 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Accelerated Approval to dostarlimab (Jemperli, GlaxoSmithKline) as...
CRISPR-Based Diagnostics on the Rise
In 2020, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for “the development of a method for genome editing” based...