October 30th 2024
In a recent study, high rates of reproductive health service use were reported among adolescent mothers, indicating the benefits of this model for providing care when other options are unavailable.
2024 Neuromuscular Summit
November 20, 2024
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Exploring Unmet Needs In Postpartum Depression – Making the Case for Early Detection and Novel Treatments
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Identifying Health Care Inequities in Screening, Diagnosis, and Trial Access for Breast Cancer Care: Taking Action With Evidence-Based Solutions
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16th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies™
May 3, 2025
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities: Tailoring Cancer Screening Plans to Address Inequities in Care
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Clinical Consultations™: Guiding Patients with Genital Psoriasis Toward Relief Through a Multidisciplinary Approach
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Simplex (differentiated) VIN: an underappreciated threat
April 16th 2003Simplex(differentiated) vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia--probably the immediate precursor of most HPV-negative invasive squamous-cell vulvar carcinomas--is easily missed or misdiagnosed. The women who are most at risk are those with vulvar dystrophy or a prior cancer.
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How to treat pregnant patients with asthma
April 16th 2003A proactive, stepwise approach to management of asthma in pregnancy can help ensure a good perinatal outcome. Focus on preventing acute asthma attacks because they can leave both mother and fetus vulnerable to progressive hypoxia and potentially disastrous consequences.
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Cover Story: Seven ways to control postpartum hemorrhage
March 3rd 2003Although you can't always anticipate a potentially catastrophic obstetric hemorrhage, rapid diagnosis and intervention can make all the difference in the world. The authors review interventions--new and old--and tell clinicians what to have on hand to implement them.
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Cover Story/Symposium: Violence and young women: implications for clinicians
February 3rd 2003Many adolescents and young adult women experience physical or sexual violence perpetrated by someone close. Knowledge of risk factors and sequelae associated with interpersonal violence and of screening methods to detect it can help the ob/gyn identify potential victims of assault. Careful management and referral of victims is critical and anticipatory guidance also is advised.
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March of Dimes Update: Taking action against prematurity
February 3rd 2003In January the March of Dimes launched a 5-year, $75 million national campaign targeting the complex problem of prematurity. Since we don't know what causes approximately half of all spontaneous preterm births, impacting prematurity is a formidable challenge. Obstetrical providers have a pivotal role in meeting this challenge.
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Cover Story/Symposium: Violence and young women: implications for clinicians
February 3rd 2003Many adolescents and young adult women experience physical or sexual violence perpetrated by someone close. Knowledge of risk factors and sequelae associated with interpersonal violence and of screening methods to detect it can help the ob/gyn identify potential victims of assault. Careful management and referral of victims is critical and anticipatory guidance also is advised.
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Legally Speaking: Case Study: "Uterine atony"
December 1st 2002This is the second in a bimonthly series aimed at educating physicians on the pertinent aspects of litigation. Each case study will provide analysis of an actual ob/gyn lawsuit defended by the New York firm of Aaronson, Rappaport, Feinstein & Deutsch, LLP.
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Cover Story: Is that Pap specimen adequate?
October 1st 2002Even before Bethesda 2001 terminology recommended substantial changes in how labs should report Pap results--including specimen adequacy--many clinicians were confused about which patients to follow-up with repeat Pap tests. This article explains and clarifies the latest Pap test adequacy guidelines.
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Obstetrics and diversity in the US: Se habla espanol?
September 1st 2002By helping Hispanic patients interact effectively with the health-care system, ob/gyns can increase the amount of prenatal care these women receive and decrease their high rates of preterm delivery and pregnancy-related maternal mortality.
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Cover Story: Repeat antenatal corticosteroids: A time for caution
August 1st 2002While a single course of antenatal corticosteroids improves neonatal outcomes among infants born prematurely, the efficacy and safety of repetitive courses of ACS (including rescue dosing) is less clear. In the absence of adequate data to support a policy of repetitive dosing of ACS, such therapy should only be used as part of well-designed clinical trials.
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Cover Story: Fetal growth restriction: an evidence-based approach--Part II
July 1st 2002Which small-for-gestational age fetuses are at an increased risk for irreversible perinatal complications and death? Having emphasised the importance of early diagnosis of FGR in Part I, the authors now focus on antepartum surveillance and assess the evidence for various management strategies.
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