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High body mass index (BMI) and short stature are risk factors for cesarean delivery across all racial/ethnic groups, according to a study to be presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine: The Pregnancy Meeting on February 7, 2014 in New Orleans.

Gestational surrogacy in India is on the rise. How will this help or harm American couples and Indian surrogates?

What are the rights of a pregnant woman whose actions or condition may harm her unborn child?

Is funding of medical education, research, and clinical care sustainable?

Opinions differ on the value of sending placentas for pathology examinations. The author calls for standardizing when, why, and how this occurs.

(PDF) SMFM Patient Handout: Risks of Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) and Amniocentesis

A reader writes regarding the November 2013 article "The transcervical Foley balloon." Are there any data that this method of induction is connected to higher rates of umbilical cord prolapse?

Questions and answers about fetal loss and complications associated with chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis.

Brian A. Levine, MD, MS shares his insight and opinions about his personal and professional use of Google Glass.Dr. Levine is a clinical fellow at the Ronald O. Perleman & Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

New evidence reveals that there may be a benefit to continuing cervical cancer screening beyond age 65 years.

Taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for at least 6 months after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or total hip arthroplasty (THA) may reduce risk of repeat surgery. So say the results of a community-based cohort study of women in the UK who had undergone TKA or THA for osteoarthritis.

Hispanic women are twice as likely as their Caucasian counterparts to suffer from vulvodynia, according to results of a longitudinal population-based study in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Fetal growth during the first trimester can set the stage for cardiovascular health later in life, according to a recent study.

Women whose cervical cancer screening ceased between ages 50 and 64 years were 6 times more likely than women who were screened to have cervical cancer from ages 65 to 83 years.

Brian Levine, MD, MS, shows and explains a photo he took while wearing Google Glass in a vacant operating room.

An analysis of over 100,000 births in California showed such a wide variation in costs that the numbers can’t be explained by typical between-hospital variables.

The less a postmenopausal woman moves, the higher her risk of mortality, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

According to a recent observational study in JAMA Surgery, women with early-stage invasive breast cancers have higher rates of disease-specific survival when they undergo breast-conserving therapy (BCT) than women who undergo mastectomy.

The exposure of adolescent rats to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) can alter neurobehavioral pathways in the next generation of offspring, even without direct exposure of progeny to the drug.

Diagnosis and treatment of high-grade cervical dysplasia substantially increases the risk of cervical or vaginal cancer at or after age 60 years, a study finds.

Text messaging appointment reminders led to more flu shots among low-income pregnant women, researchers found.