May 3rd 2024
A pair of studies from AUA 2024 show neither drinking nor vaping by either parent is associated with significantly increased risk of a spontaneous abortion.
23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® East
July 19-20, 2024
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15th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies™
May 11, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 14th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies
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4th Annual International Congress on the Future of Women’s Health™
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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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Urethro-raphy: A New Technique for Surgical Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence
October 10th 2010In 1996 we suggested an explanation of the mechanism of micturition and urinary continence. Urinary continence depends on an intact and strong internal sphincter and an acquired behavior of keeping a high alpha sympathetic tone at the internal sphincter.
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Autoimmunity Screening Clinically Proven, but Only After at Least Two Losses
August 25th 2010William Kutteh, MD, seems confounded by physicians who don’t believe in screening for and treating autoimmunity following recurrent pregnancy loss. “This is not a religious conversion event,” he said, concluding his remarks on the topic at the 2010 American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting. “There’s a lot of data.”
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Discordances Between Follicle Stimulating Hormone and Anti-Müllerian hormone in Infertility
June 17th 2010Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) represent the two most frequently utilized laboratory tests in determining ovarian reserve (OR). This study determined the clinical significance of their concordance and discordance in female infertility patients.
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Over the past 12 years, it has become increasingly recognized that insulin resistance is central to the pathogenesis of the polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). The use of insulin-sensitizing agents, such as Metformin, a biguanide insulin-lowering agent in ovulation induction for IVF, has been widely studied.
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Setting the stage for novel public policy and fiscal impact studies regarding the impact of IVF
February 1st 2010Effective health policy requires a thorough understanding of intrinsic social, ethical, political and philosophical aspects of infertility and its treatment. The procedure with the highest success rate to address the clinical challenge of infertility for many patients is a relatively high-technology procedure, in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
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Should Infertility Patients be Screened for Celiac Disease?
February 1st 2010Celiac disease occurs in roughly 1% of all humans. It is an autoimmune condition initially caused by hypersensitivity and hyperimmunity to a class of proteins, called gliadins, which are found in the outer husk of common grains such as wheat, barley, rye, and oats.
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Comparative values of tocolytic options
September 21st 2009My name is Joachim Dudenhausen and I am Professor of Obstetrics and Head of the Department of Obstetrics of the Charity University Medical School in Berlin. The institution is the biggest obstetrical department in Germany with 6,000 deliveries per year with a high rate in high risk pregnancies like, diabetes, malformation, pre-term labor, multiples and so on.
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Sperm DNA fragmentation assessment: Is it really helpful?
February 1st 2009Fertilization, both natural and by assisted reproduction techniques (ART), needs the dual support of the sperm not only for the messages it carries but for being as a messenger cell the and carrier of these messages as well.
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Q: A request for Information about Premenopause osteoporosis. I am a 31 year old woman and after the birth of my second child 4 months ago have had back pain. After an x-ray that showed a collapse in one part of my spine, I was sent for a bone density test. At the test they took my height and I was 2 inches shorter. I'm looking for information on pre menopause osteoporosis and can find very little. I would like to be informed on what can be done to help me before I go over my test results with my doctor and to better understand my options. Can you help?
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