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Daily chemical exposure timing and your fertility [PODCAST]

December 9, 2025Dec 9, 2025

Fertility specialist Oluyemisi (Yemi) Famuyiwa discusses her article, "How timing affects chemical exposure risks." Yemi introduces her fascinating concept of "chrono-exposomics," explaining how the time of day you are exposed to environmental chemicals may be as important as the dose.…

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Fertility specialist Oluyemisi (Yemi) Famuyiwa discusses her article, “How timing affects chemical exposure risks.” Yemi introduces her fascinating concept of “chrono-exposomics,” explaining how the time of day you are exposed to environmental chemicals may be as important as the dose. She reveals how our body’s circadian rhythms (like liver detoxification …

Conditions and diseases

Infertility public health: the WHO’s new global guideline

Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, MD

December 1, 2025Dec 1, 2025

Infertility affects one in six people of reproductive age worldwide, yet it remains one of the most overlooked public health challenges of our time. For decades, millions of individuals and couples have navigated this journey in silence, carrying grief, stigma, financial strain, and deep uncertainty about their reproductive futures. Despite its prevalence, infertility has rarely been treated as a global health priority.

That changed this year when the World Health Organization …

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How medicine reflects women’s silence

Priya Panneerselvam, DO

November 29, 2025Nov 29, 2025

My mother's life was defined by silence. She was born in India. In a world where a woman's worth was measured in duty: how well she cared for others, how quietly she endured. She was obedient. Her dreams were practical,…

My mother’s life was defined by silence. She was born in India. In a world where a woman’s worth was measured in duty: how well she cared for others, how quietly she endured. She was obedient. Her dreams were practical, her voice gentle. Never shared an opinion.

I used to think that by becoming a doctor (a woman with a career, a passport, a voice) I had escaped that silence for …

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Preserving your sense of self as a doctor

Camille C. Imbo, MD

November 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025

My fourth year of OB/GYN residency there was an essay contest about what it meant to be an advocate for women's health while preserving your sense of self. I sent a screenshot of the contest to my then-boyfriend, now-husband. He…

My fourth year of OB/GYN residency there was an essay contest about what it meant to be an advocate for women’s health while preserving your sense of self. I sent a screenshot of the contest to my then-boyfriend, now-husband. He replied, “You want to add something else to your to-do list?” He was joking, but he wasn’t wrong. Just a few days prior, I was hyperventilating from all the things …

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The myth of balance for women in medicine

Preyasha Tuladhar, MD

November 10, 2025Nov 10, 2025

For the longest time, I believed that if I gave myself fully, 24/7, to work, to my son, to my marriage, to my friends, then eventually, everything would fall into place. That maybe, just maybe, I would finally be able to answer every message, refill every prescription, kiss every scraped knee, and fix all the things.

But what I’ve come to understand is that we, especially women, though not exclusively, often …

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How Olympic cycling can improve health care

Dr. Simon Craig

November 9, 2025Nov 9, 2025

It's no secret, is it? Health care organizations and institutions are struggling, some more than others. However, all are faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges. Demand outstripping resources, failing cultures and disengaged staff, and everywhere blockages and lack of flow are…

It’s no secret, is it? Health care organizations and institutions are struggling, some more than others. However, all are faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges. Demand outstripping resources, failing cultures and disengaged staff, and everywhere blockages and lack of flow are but a few of the common themes.

Big money, large initiatives, and great minds have all been thrown at the problem. The result? Well, if there was an answer we would …

Conditions and diseases

Why carrier screening results are complex

Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, MD

November 2, 2025Nov 2, 2025

Carrier screening has outgrown the language we still use to explain it. The rapid expansion of genetic testing has uncovered new layers of complexity in how conditions present, how results should be interpreted, and how patients experience and act on genetic information. To practice responsibly in this era of Genetic Carrier Screening 3.0, clinicians must understand not only what we are testing for, but how and why the results look …

Conditions and diseases

Carrier screening counseling must evolve

Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, MD

October 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025

Carrier screening has outgrown the language we still use to explain it. For years, clinicians told patients they were either "a carrier" or "not a carrier." But as the science has evolved, this binary approach is not only outdated; it…

Carrier screening has outgrown the language we still use to explain it.

For years, clinicians told patients they were either “a carrier” or “not a carrier.” But as the science has evolved, this binary approach is not only outdated; it is increasingly misleading.

Genetic carrier screening has entered a new era, and our counseling must evolve alongside it.

For decades, carrier screening was offered selectively based on ethnicity. Ashkenazi Jewish individuals were screened …

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Medicine fails its working mothers

Julie Zaituna, DO, MPH

October 24, 2025Oct 24, 2025

As I sit breastfeeding a newborn and hastily switch to pump while the newborn (my fourth child) dozes, I have some thoughts that I think are particularly timely given concerns that are facing millions of families of young children in our country. Maternal and infant mortality continue to be worryingly high in the U.S., especially for women and children of color and in socially vulnerable areas of our country. The …

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How timing affects chemical exposure risks

Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, MD

October 13, 2025Oct 13, 2025

As physicians, we're used to thinking about dose (how much medication, how often, and for how long). But there's another dimension that's often overlooked: time. For decades, we've known that the body processes medicines differently depending on the time of…

As physicians, we’re used to thinking about dose (how much medication, how often, and for how long). But there’s another dimension that’s often overlooked: time. For decades, we’ve known that the body processes medicines differently depending on the time of day. A blood pressure pill or chemotherapy drug can have markedly different effects depending on when it’s taken. This field, known as chronopharmacology, has transformed how we think about drug …

Conditions and diseases

Pregnancy after age 35: What are the real risks?

Alan M. Peaceman, MD

October 3, 2025Oct 3, 2025

An excerpt from Understanding High-Risk Pregnancy: A Patient's Guide to Prenatal Complications. If you are 35 or older and either pregnant or thinking about having a baby, you are not alone. The average age for women having babies in this…

An excerpt from Understanding High-Risk Pregnancy: A Patient’s Guide to Prenatal Complications.

If you are 35 or older and either pregnant or thinking about having a baby, you are not alone. The average age for women having babies in this country and around the developed world has increased significantly over the past two decades, and the percentage of women having children after age 35 has increased as well. The teenage …

Conditions and diseases

Why do high-quality IVF embryos fail?

Erica Bove, MD

September 30, 2025Sep 30, 2025

As a fertility specialist, recurrent implantation failure is one of the most difficult and heartbreaking problems we face. Over the last forty years, we've made tremendous improvements in both IVF protocols and lab techniques. A high-quality embryo may have up…

As a fertility specialist, recurrent implantation failure is one of the most difficult and heartbreaking problems we face. Over the last forty years, we’ve made tremendous improvements in both IVF protocols and lab techniques. A high-quality embryo may have up to a 70 percent chance of yielding a live birth. However, how do we approach the patient when high quality embryos are not taking? And what does the evidence really …

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Endometriosis, AMH, and your fertility

Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, MD

September 28, 2025Sep 28, 2025

A young woman in her late twenties came to me after surgery for extensive endometriosis. The procedure had given her relief; her pain was gone. Her follow-up testing looked reassuring: her fallopian tubes were open on hysterosalpingogram (HSG), and her anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level was above 4 ng/mL, which is considered normal. Her question was straightforward: “If my AMH is good and my tubes are open, doesn’t that mean everything …

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High-risk pregnancy: Who should manage your care?

Alan M. Peaceman, MD

September 21, 2025Sep 21, 2025

An excerpt from Understanding High-Risk Pregnancy: A Patient's Guide to Prenatal Complications. What is a high-risk pregnancy? You may find it strange that there is no single accepted definition of what constitutes a high-risk pregnancy. Probably more than half of…

An excerpt from Understanding High-Risk Pregnancy: A Patient’s Guide to Prenatal Complications.

What is a high-risk pregnancy?

You may find it strange that there is no single accepted definition of what constitutes a high-risk pregnancy. Probably more than half of women will have at least one risk factor that could be an issue, but for most of these women it will minimally affect their pregnancy care or the outcome. For other …

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Affordable postpartum hemorrhage solutions every OB/GYN can use worldwide [PODCAST]

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September 17, 2025Sep 17, 2025

Maternal-fetal medicine fellow Frank I. Jackson discusses his article "Affordable postpartum hemorrhage solutions every OB/GYN should know." Frank explains how postpartum hemorrhage remains a leading cause of maternal mortality, especially in low-resource settings where advanced devices like the JADA® System…

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Maternal-fetal medicine fellow Frank I. Jackson discusses his article “Affordable postpartum hemorrhage solutions every OB/GYN should know.” Frank explains how postpartum hemorrhage remains a leading cause of maternal mortality, especially in low-resource settings where advanced devices like the JADA® System are inaccessible. He introduces two innovative, low-cost techniques—FOCUS (Foley catheter …

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Reproductive care after Roe: Why silence is not an option

Christine Petrin, MD, MPH & Susan Thompson Hingle, MD

September 6, 2025Sep 6, 2025

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the United States has been navigating a reproductive health crisis unlike anything in modern history. Now, in mid-2025, the picture is even more stark, and more urgent. In the wake of…

In the wake of the Dobbs decision, nearly 1 in 5 patients seeking abortion care, including care for miscarriage, have been forced to travel out of state. That is more than double the number from …

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How racism and policy failures shape reproductive health in America

Alexis Thompson & Anamaria Ancheta & Annique McLune & Kaitlynn Esemaya

September 4, 2025Sep 4, 2025

Historical, cultural, social, and political factors contribute to the disparities in reproductive health, making it a multifaceted and deeply rooted issue in the fabric of the United States. Historically, the legacy of slavery and the American eugenics movements established race-based medicine, systems, and stereotypes that continue to influence provider bias and patient mistrust, contributing to the ongoing inequities in reproductive health. Culturally, persistent stereotypes, particularly toward Black women, have led …

Conditions and diseases

Affordable postpartum hemorrhage solutions every OB/GYN should know

Frank I. Jackson, DO

July 29, 2025Jul 29, 2025

Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) remains one of the most common causes of maternal death globally. In many cases, it's not a matter of lacking knowledge—it's about lacking access to the tools we need. In well-resourced U.S. hospitals, the JADA® System has…

Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) remains one of the most common causes of maternal death globally. In many cases, it’s not a matter of lacking knowledge—it’s about lacking access to the tools we need.

In well-resourced U.S. hospitals, the JADA® System has in many ways been a paradigm change by using vacuum-induced uterine tamponade—a technique that creates gentle intrauterine suction to trigger uterine contraction and bleeding control. However, for the vast majority of …

Conditions and diseases

Mumps orchitis still causes infertility years after childhood

Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, MD

July 27, 2025Jul 27, 2025

As a reproductive endocrinologist, I see countless patients who walk through my doors with quiet stories of loss—sometimes the loss of hope, sometimes the loss of time. But every year, there's a particular group of gentlemen who share a strikingly…

As a reproductive endocrinologist, I see countless patients who walk through my doors with quiet stories of loss—sometimes the loss of hope, sometimes the loss of time. But every year, there’s a particular group of gentlemen who share a strikingly similar history.

They come from different countries. Many grew up in regions where the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was unavailable or inconsistently administered. They had mumps as children, recovered, and thought nothing …

Conditions and diseases

How molecular discoveries are transforming preeclampsia prediction and care

Kara Rood, MD & Thomas McElrath, MD, PhD

July 23, 2025Jul 23, 2025

When reviewing poor maternal health outcomes in the U.S., it is clear we cannot keep doing the same thing and expect to make pregnancy safe and healthy for all. A new approach is needed that harnesses the power of molecular advances to bring precision medicine to pregnancy health. Preeclampsia, one of the most dangerous complications in pregnancy, is a disorder of high blood pressure that has eluded the ability to …

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