COVID Vaccine Information Sources Utilized by Female Healthcare Workers.

Background: Clinical trials of the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines excluded individuals with active reproductive needs (attempting to conceive, currently pregnant, and/or lactating). Women comprise three-quarters of healthcare workers in the United States-an occupational field among the first to receive the vaccine. Professional medical and government organizations have encouraged shared decision-making and access to vaccination among those with active reproductive needs.

Innovative Social Media Summit: Providing a Path for Physicians on Social Media.

Problem: Physicians' voices are valued in society and should be present in mainstream social media where they can provide valuable public health messaging and patient education as well as increase opportunities for medical education, mentoring, and collaboration. However, lack of formal education on effective use of social media prevents many physicians from using it.

Approach: The authors developed a physician-led social media training program to address the need for formal instruction on social media use.

Characterizing initial COVID-19 vaccine attitudes among pregnancy-capable healthcare workers.

Background: Healthcare workers were prioritized for COVID-19 vaccination roll-out because of the high occupational risk. Vaccine trials excluded individuals who were trying to conceive and those who are pregnant and lactating, necessitating vaccine decision-making in the absence of data specific to this population.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the initial attitudes about COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy-capable healthcare workers by reproductive status and occupational exposure.

Standardizing definitions and reporting guidelines for the infertility core outcome set: an international consensus development study† ‡.

Study Question: Can consensus definitions for the core outcome set for infertility be identified in order to recommend a standardized approach to reporting?

Summary Answer: Consensus definitions for individual core outcomes, contextual statements and a standardized reporting table have been developed.

What Is Known Already: Different definitions exist for individual core outcomes for infertility. This variation increases the opportunities for researchers to engage with selective outcome reporting, which undermines secondary research and compromises clinical practice guideline development.

Driving Factors of Preterm Birth Risk in Adolescents.

 We examined rates of spontaneous and indicated preterm births (S-PTB and I-PTB, respectively) and clinical risk factors for PTB in adolescents.  This is a population-based, retrospective cohort using 2012 U.S.

UK guidelines for the medical and laboratory procurement and use of sperm, oocyte and embryo donors (2019).

This article updates the 2008 UK guidelines for the medical and laboratory screening of sperm, egg and embryo donors. This was achieved by a working group composed of representatives from: the Association of Biomedical Andrologists, the Association of Clinical Embryologists, the British Andrology Society and the British Fertility Society, with subsequent review and commentary from their respective memberships. Information and guidance on core facts which should be made evident to all parties involved in donation are provided.

Balloon atrial septostomy is associated with preoperative stroke in neonates with transposition of the great arteries.

Background: Preoperative brain injury is common in neonates with transposition of the great arteries (TGA). The objective of this study is to determine risk factors for preoperative brain injury in neonates with TGA.

Methods And Results: Twenty-nine term neonates with TGA were studied with MRI before cardiac surgery in a prospective cohort study.