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Resting-state fMRI studies of postpartum depression have produced inconsistent results for years. A 2026 voxel-based meta-analysis pooled 12 studies of 475 patients and found 4 reliable regi…
Read articleRestless legs syndrome (RLS), now also called Willis-Ekbom disease (WED), is a sleep-disrupting neurologic disorder that affects roughly 20–30% of pregnancies in some series and is linked to…
Read articleA 2026 Korean claims analysis of 32,941 women with menopausal disorders found that traditional Korean medicine without recorded acupuncture claims had the lowest 3-year cost and the highest …
Read articleA Wuhan cohort of 2,210 pregnant women found that mid-pregnancy sleep disturbance was common enough to screen for and associated with several birth-outcome signals. Depressive symptoms, pre-…
Read articleThe depression-inflammation literature has firmly established that elevated inflammatory markers track with mood symptoms, but a 2026 study of 14,419 postpartum women from Xie et al. found t…
Read articleA 2026 multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of urinary aMT6s, a melatonin metabolite used as a proxy for overnight melatonin secretion, found 0 genome-wide significant loci in 11,744…
Read articleA 2026 nuMoM2b Heart Health Study analysis tested whether urine-confirmed cannabis exposure 2–7 years after a first pregnancy predicted incident stage II hypertension; it did not: adjusted o…
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