Stanford Medicine-Women's Care Medical Group

10/31/2025

Discover 5 common household chemicals that may impact fertility and learn practical steps to minimize exposure.

09/25/2025

Yes, acetaminophen is safe to take for pain and fever when you’re pregnant.

09/19/2025

Current Covid, flu, and RSV guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - ACOG.

Today, ACOG released updated clinical guidance regarding vaccination during pregnancy against COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.

12/25/2024

To all that celebrate, have a happy holiday!

11/24/2024

Flu, Covid, Tdap, RSV-- are you current on your vaccines?
If you are over 50, get a Shingles vaccine and check whether you're a candidate for a pneumonia vaccine.

10/25/2024

Women’s Care Medical Group is a regular supporter of the !
This year’s golf tournament took place at Green Hills Country Club on October 14, 2024.
A fun time was had by all!
If you would like to donate to the foundation, please visit the website.

https://www.sequoiahospitalfoundation.org/golftournament

10/11/2024

Genentech Featured in New PBS Documentary on .

Tune in to your local PBS channel or online starting October 17 to catch Genentech in a groundbreaking new documentary on menopause!

“The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause” explores the hidden impact of menopause on women’s lives and aims to destigmatize this topic so women are empowered to make informed healthcare decisions. As an early adopter of our progressive menopause benefit, Genentech is the only employer featured in the film, serving as a model to other companies for how to support women in the workplace.

in 2022 ,at the Genentech Women Professionals Summit, a few brave leaders spoke up about how symptoms of menopause were affecting them at work. That conversation inspired the Benefits team to explore and implement our menopause benefit, launched on International Women’s Day in March of 2023. At the time, only 4% of major U.S. employers were offering this type of support. Not only was Genentech one of them – it was GWP that put this in motion!

08/25/2024

Meet your team at Women’s Care Medical Group- part of Stanford Medicine and Stanford Children’s Health. Located next to Sequoia Hospital, the best community hospital on the peninsula.

Olga Libova, CNM,NP, Virginia Chan, DO, Andrew Liu, MD, Dorothy Shoup,MD, Marjan Hafezi, FNP, Libby Szeto, MD, Lindsay Pettit, CNM, NP, Anjie Li, MD, Tanya Spirtos, MD, Beverly Joyce, MD.

We provide all women’s health services including obstertrics, gynecological surgery- including laparoscopic, robotic and other minimally invasive procedures, endometriosis management, non-surgical gynecological management, basic infertility and family planning, contraception, and menopause care.
We partner with the best of local specialists- including High Risk OB, Gynecological Oncology, Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery and Urogynecology.

Www.obgynrwc.com

04/08/2024

SHL Presents: Seven Strategies for Women Living Well

Apr 11, 2024 07:00 PM
Description: There are seven specific things that women can do to promote a healthy, long life and guess what, they aren’t that hard! Join Karen Adams, MD, and learn how sleep, mood, s*x, exercise, managing menopause symptoms, dietary choices, and connections help you live your best life, now and into your 90s and beyond.

Speaker:
Karen Adams, MD was recruited out of retirement in July 2023 to come to Stanford to create and lead a new program in Menopause & Healthy Aging. She is doubly-board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Lifestyle Medicine, a field that focuses on the power of lifestyle choices to prevent and treat chronic conditions. She is also a Menopause Society-certified Menopause Practitioner.

04/08/2024

Living Well: Seven Strategies Every Woman Needs to Know

There are seven specific things that women can do to promote a healthy, long life and guess what, they aren’t that hard! Join Karen Adams, MD, and learn how sleep, mood, s*x, exercise, managing menopause symptoms, dietary choices, and connections help you live your best life, now and into your 90s and beyond.

Karen Adams, MD, was recruited out of retirement in July 2023 to come to Stanford to create and lead a new program in Menopause & Healthy Aging. She is doubly-board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Lifestyle Medicine, a field that focuses on the power of lifestyle choices to prevent and treat chronic conditions. She is also a Menopause Society-certified Menopause Practitioner and a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.

Thursday, April 11
7:00 pm Pacific Time
Online

02/21/2024

Yearly mammograms starting at 40 save lives.
Did you know you can request a mammogram yourself?
Or call us to get an order...
It's also important to have a breast exam and well-woman visit every year to review your general health.
Many women use their OB-GYN for their routine care needs.

TUESDAY, Feb. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers hope a new study will end the debate over the best age to start breast cancer screening and how often to

01/22/2024

Are you confused by cervical cancer screening (pap smear) guidelines?

FACT: The HPV virus is the number one cause of cervical cancer.

1. HPV vaccination is known to decrease the risk of cervical cancer. It also reduces the risk of several other HPV-related cancers: vaginal, vulvar, anorectal and throat cancers.
2. HPV vaccination is recommended in young people (girls AND boys) between 9-13. Two shots are recommended BEFORE first s*xual encounter. If you never got it, it is approved for women up to age 45.
3. The HPV vaccine (Gardasil-9) creates immunity to 9 strains/sub-types of HPV, the most important of those being in the "high risk" category. Most worrisome in the high-risk category are types 16 and 18.
4. Cervical cancer screening (pap smears) should begin at age 21...earlier in cases of immunosuppression (in young women who are s*xually active).
5. Visits to the OBGYN can start earlier than 21 for the purposes of contraception, STI testing, pregnancy counseling, pelvic pain, and menstrual problems. This is NOT a pap smear. A pelvic exam in the Emergency Department is not a pap smear.
6. Pap frequency depends on your age and the results of prior pap testing. It is recommended every 3 years in women age 21 to 30. After age 30, HPV testing is recommended along with the pap. If the pap and HPV are negative, current guidelines say you can go 5 years before screening again.
7. Our doctors at Women's Care DO NOT recommend every 5 year screening. We recommend yearly well-woman visits which include a discussion with your provider about your particular screening schedule. (many of us screen every 2 years).
8. If you have an abnormal screening pap, it does not mean you have cancer. The recommendation is for colposcopy- a magnified look at the cervix with biopsies. Some cervical cancers or severe dysplasia can be found even with very minor pap changes.
9. Pap screening is more frequent in cases of prior abnormal paps because they can progress (albeit slowly) to cervical cancer.
10. Not all abnormalities need to be treated. In women age 21-24, cervical abnormalities often resolve without treatment.
11. Special circumstances include pregnancy (no biopsy unless suspicious for cancer), Immunosuppression (medications or HIV), after hysterectomy (no further cervical cancer screening if no cervix. Caveat- it is still important to have a vulvar +/- vaginal exam, especially if prior HPV infection. )

When can you stop screening? If 3 negative paps in the past 10 years, and over 70.

However, among women in their early 20s who have benefitted from the HPV vaccine, cervical cancer incidence plummeted by 65% from 2012 to 2019.