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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.

MRI findings suggest progesterone, more than estradiol, is linked to menstrual phase–dependent differences in brain structure.