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Physicians should be vigilant about the dual impact of GLP-1 drugs on contraceptive failure and unexpected fertility enhancements, prompting a reassessment of patient guidance and contraceptive choices in clinical practice.

ART-conceived singleton infants had an elevated risk for major genitourinary abnormalities. This risk remained unchanged even when accounting for parental infertility.

In a scheme to defraud health insurance programs for nearly 10 years, Javaid Perwaiz, MD, caused nearly $21 million in losses to private and government payers for unnecessary surgeries and procedures, such as irreversible hysterectomies, improper sterilizations, and others. He was convicted on 52 counts of healthcare fraud and other charges tied to these unwarranted procedures, and previously faced a conviction for felony tax fraud in the 1990s, as well as earlier accusations of performing unnecessary hysterectomies that led to his firing from a hospital.