Health Matters for Women - December 2024

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December 2024

CDC's Office of Women's Health monthly e-newsletter provides information on what is happening in women's and girls' health around CDC and other public health agencies. Sign up today to receive Health Matters for Women newsletter monthly!

Featured Story

CDC's Office of Women's Health (OWH) extracted death data from the National Center for Health Statistics: National Vital Statistics System Report: Leading Causes of Deaths for 2021. Take a look at the leading causes of the death in 2021 among females. Featured

New from CDC Authors

Preventing Influenza Virus Infection and Severe Influenza Among Pregnant People and Infants

Associations of Maternal and Paternal Preconception and Maternal Pregnancy Urinary Phthalate Biomarker and Bisphenol A Concentrations with Offspring Autistic Behaviors: The PEACE study

Associations of Maternal Peripregnancy Cannabis use with Behavioral and Developmental Outcomes in Children with and without Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Study to Explore Early Development

Inequities in Intimate Partner Homicide: Social Determinants of Health Mediate Racial/Ethnic Disparities

Exposure to Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardants and Plasticizers and Associations with Preeclampsia and Blood Pressure in Pregnancy

Nonuse of Contraception at Conception Due to Partner Objection and Pregnancy-Related Health Care Utilization, Postpartum Health, and Infant Birth Outcomes

Abortion Surveillance - United States, 2022

Cost-Effectiveness of Extending Human Papillomavirus Vaccination to Population Subgroups Older Than 26 Years Who Are at Higher Risk for Human Papillomavirus Infection in the United States

Associations of urinary Biomarkers of Phthalates, Phenols, Parabens, and Organophosphate Esters with Glycemic Traits in Pregnancy: The Healthy Start Study

What's Happening in Women's Health

• Abnormal Prenatal Blood Test Results Could Indicate Hidden Maternal Cancers - NIH

• Newer Epilepsy Medications Used During Pregnancy Do Not Affect Neurological Development in Children - NIH

Question of the Month

	World AIDS Day, December 1 each year, is an opportunity to honor the more than 32 million people who have died worldwide from AIDS-related illnesses. In 2019, most new diagnoses of HIV in women were attributed to: a. Heterosexual contact b. Injection drug use c. Other Check to verify your answer.

Health Observances

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