What Is Chronic Pelvic Pain? Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is pain below the belly button that lasts for at least 6 months and can affect quality of life in many areas, including emotional, sexual, and economic well-being. It is a common condit…
IMPORTANCE: The #MeToo movement has highlighted how frequently women experience sexual violence. However, to date, no recent studies have assessed the prevalence of forced sex during girls' and women's first sexual encounter or its health c…
IMPORTANCE: Animal experiments suggest that ingestion of pesticide mixtures at environmentally relevant concentrations decreases the number of live-born offspring. Whether the same is true in humans is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To examine the as…
IMPORTANCE: Continuous/extended cyclic estrogen use (84/7 or 365/0 days cycles) in combined oral contraceptives (COCs) could potentially expose women to an increased cumulative dose of estrogen, compared with traditional cyclic regimens (21…