Pregnancy and Birth

Not losing any baby weight within 1 year after delivery increases a woman’s risk of diabetes and heart disease, new research shows.

Challenge your diagnostic skills: Can you identify this cardiac defect?

The number of live births a woman has had may indicate her risk of heart disease, adding to evidence that body changes in pregnancy play a role in cardiovascular disease.

Patients undergoing IVF do better with strong social support, but many of these patients feel isolated and don’t share their fertility struggles. Can mindfulness help?

According to a recent study in The Lancet, a reduction in preterm births and childhood hospital visits for asthma are additional benefits to public smoking bans.

Antidepressant use in pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth. However, untreated depression is serious, and the needs of the mother must come first.

Mammography screening for breast cancer saves lives: this should be the message that physicians spread to colleagues and patients, say leading experts.

Challenge your diagnostic skills: Can you identify the highlighted structure?

Was there an unreasonable delay in making the diagnosis, and did that delay have an effect on the patient’s treatment and overall life expectancy?

A review of the latest agents and strategies for treating venous thromboembolic events (VTE) in both pregnant and nonpregnant women.

Miscarriage and stillbirth can occur in pregnant women with Haemophilus influenzae infection. Here, new data quantify the risk and reveal which bacteria type poses the most threat.

Clinically meaningful data about stress and fertility has been reported by Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Environment (LIFE) study researchers.

A routine ultrasound exam reveals unexpected findings in the lungs of a 29-week fetus. What’s your diagnosis?

New research reveals opportunities to improve care in women in latent labor and tips to keep them happier when you send them home.

New research expected this year will bring about significant changes to clinical practice. Here, society leaders share what’s on their radar for 2014.

What research from the past year will have the most significant impact on women's health care? The leaders of five major ob/gyn societies weigh in.

A head-to-head comparison of salpingotomy and salpingectomy finds that removing the affected tube after an ectopic pregnancy doesn’t affect fertility as expected.

Challenge your diagnostic skills: Can you identify this structure in the fetal thorax?

Physicians’ groups are urging ob/gyns to have difficult conversations with obese women about their weight. Here’s one example of how utter bluntness can be an effective tactic.

Exercise during pregnancy prevented excessive gestational weight gain, but the benefit of the intervention was not observed in the groups most at risk.

Maybe that one glass of wine isn’t so harmless. New research suggests that even small amounts of alcohol in the first trimester can increase the risk of adverse outcomes.

Although causality was not established, ADHD and other behavioral disorders were more likely to be diagnosed in children of women who used acetaminophen during pregnancy.

According to a new study in Tobacco Control, women exposed to secondhand smoking (SHS), particularly those with no history of smoking, have a higher risk of spontaneous abortions, ectopic pregnancies, and stillbirths than women with no such exposure.

A striking number of sexually active women experience reproductive coercion by their male partners, and their ability to use contraception and plan pregnancies may be compromised.

An iliac artery rupture results in a patient's death. Was it caused by the cesarean delivery, the patient’s disease process, or the care she received following her delivery?