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Women who are overweight and or obese during pregnancy may be at greater risk of preterm—and more notably—extremely preterm delivery, according to results of a new Swedish study published in JAMA.
Three major Ohio universities and 4 hospitals have joined with the March of Dimes Foundation to establish a new collaborative research program aimed exclusively at finding the unknown causes of premature birth.
One in 3 women nulliparous women with a short cervix is prescribed some type of activity restriction, despite lack of benefit in prevention of preterm birth (PTB). Those are the findings from a secondary analysis of data from the Short Cervix and Nulliparity trial. Published in Obstetrics & Gynecology, it is accompanied by a commentary titled “Bed Rest in Pregnancy: Time to Put the Issue to Rest” and an ethical argument for dismissing the practice.
Only 11% of Americans have a high level of understanding of the key aspects of federal health reform, despite substantial media coverage in the 2-plus years since the legislation's passage.
A large population-based Australian cohort study suggests that incidence of pregnancy-associated cancer may be on the rise and suggests a link between multiple gestation and large-for-gestational age (LGA) size at birth. Published in BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the study finding of increased incidence is only partially explained by increases in maternal age.
The FDA recently announced that an ultrasound (U/S) device for breast cancer screening– the somo-v ABUS–has been approved for use in women with dense breasts.
Electronic health record (EHR) systems affect small-practice physicians’ workflows mostly negatively, whereas their staff members’ workflows are generally improved, according to recently published research.
A longitudinal study of more than 10,000 children born in the United States suggests that maternal depressive symptoms are connected to growth patterns in preschool- and school-aged children. The research, by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, underscores the importance of prevention, early detection, and treatment of depression in the first year postpartum.
Children exposed in the womb to the commonly used pesticide bolstering agent piperonyl butoxide (PBO) are more likely to suffer from a noninfectious cough at ages 5 to 6 years than those with no such prenatal exposure, according to researchers from the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health and of Columbia University Medical Center.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has once again issued a lengthy report indicting the US healthcare system as falling abysmally short, using just about any means of measure. The report says that based on 2009 figures, the United States is wasting approximately $750 billion per year on the care of its people.
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