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Among women who are deemed high-risk for pre-eclampsia by Doppler examination, treatment with low-dose aspirin appears to have no significant clinical benefit, a recent study has found.

The use of hormone therapy poses a small but significant increase in systolic blood pressure (BP) in postmenopausal women with hypertension, a study has found. However, this BP elevation does not lead to increased BP-lowering medication use over time.

A dietary intervention consisting of a plant-based diet, minimal oils, and daily soybeans appears to have favourable effects on vasomotor symptoms and menopause-related quality of life, as reported in a study.

Postpartum cervical length measurements help pinpoint which patients are at heightened risk of subsequent spontaneous preterm birth, as reported in a study.

Breast cancer patients with urogenital atrophy may benefit from intravaginal laser therapy and hyaluronic acid suppositories, with a recent study showing that both help resolve related symptoms equally.

Trabectedin falls short of meeting the prespecified antitumour activity criteria in patients with advanced ovarian (OC) or uterine carcinosarcoma (UC), according to the results of a phase II trial. However, there appears to be a modest clinical benefit in a group of heavily pretreated patients.

A 90-day tenofovir (TFV) regimen combined with a levonorgestrel (LNG) intravaginal ring (IVR), which elutes the drug continuously or cyclically, is safe for use in women and can effectively prevent unintended pregnancies, a recent phase I study has found.