To assess the relationship between combined contraceptive vaginal ring (CVR) and vaginal microbiome using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This is the objective of the pilot study by Filippo Murina and collaborators from the Vittore Buzzi University Hospital in Milan, in which Alessandra Graziottin also took part.

Knowledge of female genital anatomy and physiology is often inadequate or incorrect among women. Precise patient-physician conversations can be inhibited by a reluctance or inability to speak accurately about the vulva and vagina, with the terms often being used interchangeably...

Routine intimate hygiene care has a major contribution in maintaining overall urogenital and perineal health in women. However, Filipino women continue to experience a major surge in vulvar and vaginal symptoms across all age groups, in a context of major changes in lifestyles and risk factors impacting their genital health...

The postpartum period encompasses the biological and psychoaffective transition to motherhood. However, it remains a most neglected phase in a woman's life. Furthermore, the transition to parenthood is a critical and potentially disrupting factor in a couple's relationship, which can be complicated by undiagnosed biological and psychosexual difficulties. Lack of recognition of the many biological and medical factors that can affect women's health and sexuality in the postpartum period is a common and persistent clinical omission worldwide...

Women with provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) are more likely to report a history of vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) and recurrent VVC (RVVC). This observational Italian study was undertaken to analyze how many women with PVD have an RVVC as a leading trigger and to describe predisposing factors...