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Healthcare reform may be upon and one of its main goals is cost control.

Sutures are the way to go for cesarean delivery closure, even though they require more time, research indicates.

An Ohio woman had a cesarean delivery in 2007 and was later diagnosed with a foreign body in her abdomen.

Details of a statewide effort in Ohio were revealed at the SMFM conference that demonstrated the successful reduction in the number of scheduled near-term births without a medical or obstetric indication from 1 in 4 to less than 1 in 20.

The US FDA unveiled an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from 3 types of medical imaging procedures that are the greatest contributors to total radiation exposure within the United States.

Preterm placenta may be more susceptible to maternal infection-induced placental cytokine response resulting in fetal inflammation, new research reveals.

In February, President Obama signed into law a measure to raise the federal debt limit by $1.9 trillion to $14.3 trillion, enabling the government to keep borrowing to cover operations into 2011.

A coalition of public interest and patient safety groups has begun a campaign to increase public awareness of the need to increase patient safety through shorter shifts and more supervision of resident physicians.

A New York woman went to her gynecologist for an exam in 2005, complaining of a lump in her left breast.

Those who used contraceptive vaginal ring users during a 3-month period tended to report perfect use more often than oral contraceptive users, according to study findings published in March 2010 Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Acupuncture treatment may help lower depression symptoms during pregnancy, according to findings published in the March 2010 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Minorities?both racial and ethnic?continue to lack recognition that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the No.1 reason for death in women, even though overall understanding of the disease's rank among death causes has doubled in the last 13 years, a new study shows.

Women of child-bearing age who experienced preterm premature rupture of membranes in a prior pregnancy should consider holding off for at least 18 months before having another child. The guidance is based on research published in the Feb. 4, 2010, online edition of American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

A panel organized by the National Institutes of Health is mulling changes to guidance on vaginal births among women who have previously delivered via cesarean delivery.

There was a time in the late 1990s when it seemed that the author was performing a cerclage every week.

Findings from a retrospective study involving discharge data on 222,751 women from a variety of hospital settings indicate that during the 6-week post-partum period, women are at higher risk for a number of nonurogenital infections.

Influenza A virus is a type of ribonucleic acid, single-stranded, enveloped, orthomyxovirus that contains H and N surface glycoproteins.

Ultrasound screening of all pregnant women for signs of a shortened cervix could be a cost-effective means of lowering the rate of pre-term births, even when routinely performed on low-risk women.

Emotions alone are not enough to prove an allegation of improper care.

For the first time, AHRQ is moving to designate data to be collected to establish a core set of quality indicators of children's healthcare under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.

Researchers reviewed data on women exposed to an HPV vaccine up to 1 month prior to onset of their last menstrual period or at any time during pregnancy.

Menstrual regularity in adolescent girls provides valuable clues about current and future bone integrity.

Breastfeeding may protect mothers against the development of vascular disease, according to a new study.

The federal government has issued 2 sets of regulations to lay groundwork for physicians and hospitals to receive payments for implementing and using electronic medical records.

This department will take a hard look at some of the common things done in OB/Gyn practice.

Liability insurance premiums have eased nationwide for the fourth straight year.

Asymptomatic, nulliparous, heterozygous carriers of the prothrombin gene mutation are 3.6 times as likely as women who do not carry the mutation to experience severe pregnancy complications.

Women with epistaxis during pregnancy are at increased risk for postpartum hemorrhage, even after controlling for cesarean delivery.

Osteoporosis greatly increases the risk of fracture for postmenopausal women, especially older women.

Whether women use assistive reproductive technology, women with endometriosis are about 33% more likely than women without the condition to give birth prematurely, according to a nationwide study.