In anovulatory women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), one-time use of progestin to induce withdrawal bleeding before ovulation induction may decrease the odds of conception and live birth, according to a new study conducted by researchers for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIHCD) Cooperative Reproductive Medicine Network (RMN).
Whether a woman is overweight or obese before and during pregnancy, and not glucose levels, is the most reliable predictor of a woman’s risk of giving birth to a large-for-gestational-age infant, according to a new study conducted in Canada.
Proper weight management during pregnancy is beneficial to both the mother and the fetus. Overweight women are at an increased risk for gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, preterm birth and intrauterine death.
Letters discuss global endometrial ablations, intrauterine scarring, and disagreements over cancer biomarkers. Steven R. Goldstein and Andrew John Li respond.
Women who undergo elective induction of labor for a history of fast labor continue the trend of delivering in about half the time of other women, but the benefit of induction is small, a study from the Summa Health System reports.
Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are significantly more effective than oral contraceptive pills, rings, or patches in preventing unintended pregnancy in adolescent girls and young women, a large prospective cohort study from Washington University School of Medicine reports.
According to a study presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, many women are unaware of their risk for cardiovascular disease (CV), but a screening tool completed during their annual ob/gyn examination could change that.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is one of the most common, serious complications associated with pregnancy.
A new algorithm based on gene expression data for 151 DNA repair genes can identify outcomes and response to platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer, researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report.
Looking at a lawsuit involving preterm delivery and insufficient care.
The debate over universal screening for maternal hypothyroidism has raged for years. Recent concrete data points to just testing at-risk mothers.
One of the most difficult things a doctor faces is the apology for mistakes. See why it's so important to get the apology right.
A look at new research on one of the leading causes for maternal mortality.
Dietary and lifestyle interventions in pregnancy can reduce maternal gestational weight gain and improve outcomes for both mother and baby, according to a new study. In Europe and the United States, 20% to 40% of women gain more than the recommended amount of weight during pregnancy.
Although antibiotic therapy is more effective than probiotics in treating recurrent urinary tract infections, antibiotic resistance increases rapidly after onset of drug therapy.
There is an ongoing debate as to whether or not pre-operative urodynamic testing offers any value in uncomplicated stress urinary incontinence patients who are undergoing surgery.
These are ultrasound images of an early pregnancy.
Population based risk scoring can effectively predict preterm birth risks earlier than cervical length screening according to research presented at the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Annual Clinical Meeting.
There is much debate about whether pre-operative urodynamic testing (or bladder function testing) is clinically useful in patients with pure stress urinary incontinence, with some professional organizations recommending for the use of routine urodynamics and some recommending against routine use of these tests.
Several recent studies have shown that the addition of secondary ultrasound markers to the combined first-trimester screening for aneuploidies, or chromosomal abnormalities such as trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) and trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), can slightly improve screening accuracy.
A study presented at the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Annual Clinical Meeting indicates that as birth weight increases, progression in labor is slower in both successful trial of labor and patients who ultimately have cesarean deliveries.
Our patient presented at 29 weeks gestation for a routine prenatal ultrasound.
A new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, which was developed by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was used to distinguish specific types of Toxoplasma gondii parasite that children acquired in the womb from their acutely infected mothers.
A jury recently awarded 78.5 million in a birth injury case.
There are multiple anomalies in these ultrasound images of a second trimester pregnancy.
The findings of several recent studies involving breast cancer is lending further evidence to the idea that genetics and genomics will soon be the primary focus of diagnosing and treating cancer.
In the early years, medical practices only utilized Relative Value Units (RVUs) to understand the Medicare fee schedule. Now the role of RVU analysis has expanded. RVUs have become the standard measurement in analysis of reimbursement and payer contracts, physician compensation and productivity, and practice staffing and operating costs.
A geographic practice cost index (GPCI) accounts for geographic differences in the cost of practice around the country.
The decision to continue a pregnancy on the basis of diagnosed fetal conditions may depend on whether the physician counseling the parents is a maternal-fetal medicine or a fetal care pediatric specialist. More >>
Women with opioid dependence who become pregnant are at risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes and perinatal complications.
