BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of long acting progestogens compared with the combined oral contraceptive pill in preventing recurrence of endometriosis related pain. DESIGN: The PRE-EMPT (preventing recurrence of endome…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between long term residential exposure to road traffic noise and particulate matter with a diameter <2.5 µm (PM2.5) and infertility in men and women. DESIGN: Nationwide prospective cohort study. SETT…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk of intracranial meningioma associated with the use of selected progestogens. DESIGN: National case-control study. SETTING: French National Health Data System (ie, Système National des Données de Santé). PART…

OBJECTIVE: To study the influence of concomitant use of hormonal contraception and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on the risk of venous thromboembolism. DESIGN: Nationwide cohort study. SETTING: Denmark through national re…

Inadequate menstrual health education in the UK contributes to delayed and poor treatment for menstrual related disorders, such as endometriosis and uterine fibroids, many of which severely impact quality of life. 1 Systemic racism and unco…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations of infertility, recurrent miscarriage, and stillbirth with the risk of first non-fatal and fatal stroke, further stratified by stroke subtypes. DESIGN: Individual participant pooled analysis of eight …

Endometriosis affects approximately 190 million women and people assigned female at birth worldwide. It is a chronic, inflammatory, gynecologic disease marked by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, which in many pati…

OBJECTIVES: To determine if bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, compared with ovarian conservation, is associated with all cause or cause specific death in women undergoing hysterectomy for non-malignant disease, and to determine how this asso…

OBJECTIVE: To consolidate evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses investigating the association between reproductive factors in women of reproductive age and their subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease. DESIGN: Umbrella revi…

Black and ethnic minority women are paying with their lives for the lack of action on racial bias, reports Lilian Anekwe Maternal health—or lack of it—is one of the starkest examples of racial health inequalities in the United Kingdom and i…

OBJECTIVE: To compare the ongoing pregnancy rate between a freeze-all strategy and a fresh transfer strategy in assisted reproductive technology treatment. DESIGN: Multicentre, randomised controlled superiority trial. SETTING: Outpatient …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether irregular or long menstrual cycles throughout the life course are associated with all cause and cause specific premature mortality (age <70 years). DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Nurses' Health S…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between pregravid use of a variety of contraceptive methods and subsequent fecundability. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Denmark and North America, 2007-19. PARTICIPANTS: 17 954 women wh…

A woman whose endometriosis was undiagnosed for nearly 15 years has won £500 000 (€553 000; $659 000) compensation from the NHS in an out-of-court settlement. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust agreed to settle the claim by Frances …

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association between contemporary combined hormonal contraceptives (including progestogen types in combined preparations and all progestogen-only products) and overall and specific types of ovarian cancer. DES…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the risks of ovarian, breast, and corpus uteri cancer in women who have had assisted reproduction. DESIGN: Large, population based, data linkage cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: All women who had assisted …

A 29 year old nulliparous woman presented with a two year history of cyclical pelvic pain and dyspareunia. She underwent a diagnostic laparoscopy to identify a cause for the pain, and this revealed two gynaecological abnormalities (fig 1). …

Objectives To evaluate the existing evidence for associations between coffee consumption and multiple health outcomes.Design Umbrella review of the evidence across meta-analyses of observational and interventional studies of coffee consumpt…

#### What you need to know Endometriosis is one of the most common gynaecological disorders, affecting an estimated 10% of women in the reproductive age group (usually 15-49 years old), and in the UK it is the second most common gynaecolog…

Many women with fibroids and endometriosis are unhappy with their care, a survey of more than 2600 women has found, and many resort to finding out about their condition online.1 A survey by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women’s Heal…

Objective To investigate the association between lifetime breast feeding, exclusive breast feeding, postpartum amenorrhea, and incidence of endometriosis among parous women.Design Prospective cohort study.Setting Nurses' Health Study II, 19…

Chronic pelvic pain affects 2.1% to 24% of the global female population,12 and up to half of the affected women have no obvious pathology.23 The neuromodulator gabapentin can be used to modulate pain, but the evidence for its effectiveness …