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Recent research by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Baylor College of Medicine discovers that aspirin’s benefit in preventing pre-eclampsia is mediated through decelerating the metabolic clock of gestation.

Pregnancies that resulted from infertility treatment show a heightened risk of neonatal mortality, with this association largely mediated through preterm delivery, a study has found.

Altered measures of the coagulation parameters, specifically high international normalised ratio and low haemoglobin, in the third trimester of pregnancy among women with severe anaemia appear to contribute to an increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage, a study has found.

The antimigraine medications dihydroergotamine (DHE) and triptan seem to aggravate the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as premature birth and spontaneous abortion (SA), a recent study has found.

Among women receiving immunosuppression treatment with mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors (mTORi), the incidence of ovarian cyst appears to be a common adverse event, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Extending treatment with letrozole for 5 years improves disease-free survival (DFS) rates in postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer who have already received tamoxifen for 2–3 years, according to the GIM4* trial.

In the treatment of women with acute ischaemic stroke, mechanical thrombectomy is effective and can be safely performed during pregnancy or the postpartum period, as shown in a study.

Oteseconazole (VT-1161), a novel investigational fungal CYP51 inhibitor, outdid fluconazole/placebo for managing acute and recurrent* vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), according to data from the phase III ultraVIOLET trial.