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Is epidural analgesia or combined spinal-epidural (CSE) analgesia better for pain management in labor?

According to the American Medical Association, the southern part of the United States is facing an HIV epidemic. Do you proactively talk with your patients about their risk of contracting HIV?

Prophylactic dexamethasone decreases the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting without causing observable adverse effects in patients after laparoscopic gynecological surgery, concludes a new meta-analytic review.

Doubling the duration of adjuvant tamoxifen treatment in women estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer reduces risk of late recurrence and death compared with the current standard-of-care of 5 years' therapy. So say the results of a large international randomized trial presented at the 2012 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and simultaneously published in The Lancet.

The New York Times claims that today, about 39% of doctors nationwide are independent, down from 57% in 2000, citing estimates by the consulting firm Accenture. The article "A Hospital War Reflects a Bind for Doctors in the U.S.," which appeared on the New York Times web site on November 30, 2012, discusses the state of healthcare in Boise, Idaho, which the authors call "a medical battleground" and claim is representative of the healthcare situation in many cities around the United States.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found an increased prevalence of asthma among children born to parents who used assisted reproductive technologies (ART). A large registry-based study conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Essex in England drew from the Millennium Cohort Study, a UK-wide, prospective study of 18,818 children recruited at age 9 months.

A review of new publications by the Update Committee for the American Society of Clinical Oncology found that the guidelines for the follow-up and management of patients with breast cancer who have completed treatment are still sound.

A National Institutes of Health-funded study published in the Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology provides evidence that exposure to the compound bisphenol A (BPA) during human pregnancy is considerable, and that elimination of BPA occurs more slowly in fetuses than in adults.

A mouse model suggests that prenatal treatment with neuroprotective peptides may have potential in improving learning performance in Down syndrome, according to researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Levels of exposure that are defined as 'safe' by the official limits, are actually having non-trivial adverse effects, according to new reports.

What do you make of this not-uncommon uterine problem? The patient is a middle aged woman with pelvic pain.

Applied relaxation techniques can effectively manage vasomotor symptoms of menopause, primarily hot flashes, in healthy women, according to the results of a new study conducted in Sweden.

Prostaglandin inhibitors, such as celecoxib and indomethacin, and calcium channel blockers, such as nifedipine and nicardipine, had the highest probability of delaying premature labor by 48 hours and improving maternal and neonatal outcomes, according to a systematic review and network meta-analysis published in a recent issue of BMJ.

Fear-not clinical indications-may be the driving force in women's decision-making about contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM). That is the surprising conclusion from a population-based study presented by investigators from Michigan at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Quality Symposium in San Diego.

The 2011 US birth rate was the lowest ever recorded, according to a report by the Pew Research Center for its Social & Demographic Trends project. The decline was greatest in births to immigrant women.

A number of studies conclude that breast cancer screening has little to no effect on mortality. Is it time to scrap the practice?

For women undergoing fertility treatments, the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors use may decrease pregnancy rates and increase miscarriage rates.

In our annual physician compensation survey, find out how your net income, salary, bonus, overhead, and work hours compare to other ob/gyns.

Name the vessels shown in this color Doppler image of a fetal abdomen in 22 week-old fetus. Is anything abnormal?

Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are not only highly effective, they are appropriate under a variety of conditions. Here, the authors present 3 scenarios in which patients would benefit from LARC methods.

Contemporary OB/GYN's Editor-in-Chief makes his predictions about where healthcare is headed over the next four years.

A child whose mother experienced influenza or prolonged fever or was prescribed antibiotics for common infections while pregnant may be at an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

The sexual functioning, experiences, and behaviors of couples as they undergo assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures have rarely been explored, according to researchers at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

In a commentary presented at the European Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Paris in June 2012, researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany urged obstetric providers to discourage promoting home births as safe alternatives to births in hospitals.

Looking at the legal issues surrounding non-timely referrals delaying cancer diagnoses, brachial plexus injuries, maternal sepsis, bowel perforation, and shoulder dystocia ending in paralysis.

A population-based study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that black women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than white women-but a 41% higher rate of death because of the disease.

A look at how periodontal can affect a woman's pregnancy and the likelihood of preterm birth.

Taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) during pregnancy may put women at risk of miscarriage and preterm birth (PTB) and also put their babies at risk of a number of health and developmental complications, according to a recent study.