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The AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel approved a structural overhaul of maternity care coding, replacing global obstetric codes with phase-specific reporting across antepartum, labor management, delivery, and postpartum care effective January 1, 2027.

The American College of Physicians issued updated breast cancer screening guidance recommending biennial mammography for average-risk women aged 50 to 74, with shared decision-making for those 40 to 49 and discontinuation discussions after 74.

Stroke incidence is rising in women under 45, with attention turning to non-traditional risk factors including handheld percussive devices, sexual strangulation, migraine with aura, peripartum vascular changes, and early menopause.

Brain MRI patterns differed enough between first and second pregnancies that a machine learning classifier could distinguish them, with the default mode network shift appearing to be a first-pregnancy-dominant adaptation.

Paracervical block consistently reduces pain during IUD insertion in vaginally nulliparous patients, while NSAIDs, misoprostol, and nitrous oxide show no clinical benefit across randomized trials.