Journalists working on stories related to high-risk pregnancies or the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine can contact Greg Phillips, Director of Communications, at press@smfm.org for referrals to MFM experts and to request additional information. The press office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET.
As the experts in high-risk pregnancy, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) strongly disagrees with the changes that were implemented in the proceedings of the June 2025 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting. Continue Reading
As the experts in high-risk pregnancy, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) strongly reaffirms its recommendation that pregnant patients receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Pregnancy increases the risk of developing severe illness compared with nonpregnant patients. Maternal immunization... Continue Reading
By Brenna L. Hughes, MD, MSc, and Naima T. Joseph, MD In late February 2025, the first confirmed measles-related death in the United States in a decade was reported when an unvaccinated school-aged child in West Texas died. A second measles-related death of a child in Texas is under... Continue Reading
Flu season is here, and many parts of the country are already seeing unprecedented levels of influenza-like illness and confirmed influenza infection. That is why, collectively, the American Academy of Family Physicians; American College of Nurse-Midwives; American College of Obstetricians and... Continue Reading
Effective April 1, 2022, there is a new series of ICD-10 codes for COVID-19 (Z28.31__) that was created to indicate that a patient is unvaccinated or ‘under-immunized’. There is also a new code (effective 4/1/2022) to identify patients who are ‘under-immunized’ status for... Continue Reading
Washington, DC ― Research shows that pregnant people who contract COVID-19 are at increased risk of severe complications, including hospitalization, ventilation, and death, compared to pregnant people without COVID-19. However, little is known about how the timing of COVID-19 infection during... Continue Reading
Previous Code E78.4 Other hyperlipidemia New Code(s) E78.41 Elevated lipoprotein(a) E78.49 Other hyperlipidemia Previous Code F53 Puerperal psychosis New Code(s) F53.0 Postpartum depression F53.1 Puerperal psychosis Previously, there was no code for postpartum... Continue Reading
