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High systolic blood pressure (BP) appears to be a substantial risk factor for cardiovascular events in women middle-aged and older, and many of these events are potentially preventable with lowered PB, according to research published online Jan 24 in Hypertension.

Women who receive false-positive results from routine breast cancer screenings may experience a low quality of life and feelings of anxiety for at least one year, according to a study published online Dec. 20 in the British Journal of Surgery.

A 30 y/o woman, P1001, sought a second opinion from me regarding the following situation: She just had her first baby, and has a history of symptomatic endometriosis including some difficulty in achieving pregnancy (but did so without medical intervention). She was advised by another physician that she should use either depo or the progestin only pill for the next 6-12 months (while she is breastfeeding) to prevent the progression of endometriosis.

Resolution of maternal grief following the experience of preterm birth, and the subsequent quality of maternal interactions, have important implications for attachment security development in premature infants, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in Pediatrics.

Radiotherapy may increase the long-term risk of death from cardiovascular disease, especially in women with left-sided breast cancer who are treated with contemporary tangential breast or chest-wall radiotherapy, according to a study in the Jan. 25 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Occult metastases are prognostic variables in patients with breast cancer who have negative sentinel lymph node biopsies, but the difference in five-year outcome is very small, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Basal-like breast cancer is not more aggressive among African-American individuals than whites; however, in patients with luminal A cancer, African-American women experience worse outcomes, according to a study published in the Dec. 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research.

A Western diet high in fat and cholesterol may be linked to larger, faster-growing tumors that metastasize more easily in mice predisposed to breast cancer, according to a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Pathology.

Adjuvant breast cancer therapy with an aromatase inhibitor (exemestane) alone, or used following tamoxifen, offers similar disease-free survival rates but different side-effect profiles, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in The Lancet.

Waiting 2 to 6 hours after delivery before using uterine compression sutures increases the odds of a hysterectomy by 4 times, according to study results.

In view of the recent publication by Chlebowski et al linking menopausal hormone therapy and progestin with breast cancer, clinicians are asking whether it is time to stop prescribing even short courses of such treatment.

Women undergoing vaginal hysterectomy experience less perioperative morbidity and use fewer resources when high-volume, rather than low-volume, vaginal surgeons perform the procedure, according to a new study.

Women who have more than 3 miscarriages have a 5-fold increase in risk for heart attack later in life, according to study findings.

The patient was referred to the defendant ob/gyn by the codefendant urologist in December 2006 for evaluation of longstanding uterine prolapse with cystocele and rectocele.

Transvaginal ultrasound screening can detect endometrial thickness and other endometrial abnormalities with enough sensitivity to predict a postmenopausal woman's risk for endometrial cancer and atypical endometrial hyperplasia within 1 year of the test, according to study results.

The 24-day oral contraceptive regimens containing a progestogen with a long half-life are generally more effective than conventional 21-day regimens.

In women with ductal carcinoma in situ treated with complete local excision, radiotherapy reduces by about 60% to 70% new breast events of ipsilateral invasive and DCIS natures compared with no radiotherapy.

Concerned about patient safety related to potential malfunctions of health information technology, the Institute of Medicine is conducting a yearlong study and will issue recommendations for safe implementation of the technology.

The primary goal of medical professionals is to provide patients with the best possible care and outcome.

Fetal growth restriction may be the result of several possible conditions, including maternal, fetal and placental.

While it is rare for a woman in the United States to die from pregnancy complications, the national rate of pregnancy-related deaths is on the rise, according to the CDC.

Women who travel 20 minutes or more from home to their hospital by car at full term are more likely to suffer adverse neonatal outcomes.

Presenters at the 21st annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in Chicago offered fresh scientific information and valuable clinical pearls on topics ranging from nanoscience and women's health to cardiovascular disease in women.

The World Health Organization reports that hypertensive disorders are the leading cause of maternal mortality, accounting for 16.1% of maternal deaths in developed countries over the past 2 decades.

I have a case that I've known for some time. She is a case of diagnosed endometriosis. I did her adhesiolisis in 1993 and then she got pregnant, then she had a big endometriotic cyst and I removed it and then she got pregnant again. In the last six years, she got 2 endometriotic cysts that were very big and causing agonizing pains and had to be surgically removed in 2 occasions. Last year she got pregnant spontaneously but missed abortion at 14 weeks and had to evacuate by extramniotic PG.

I have a 30 year old patient who was diagnosed with recurrent herpes about 9 months ago. I documented the lesions with cultures and treated her with three different antivirals. Despite all of them, she continued to have painful vaginal erethematous spots in the vagina and on the vulva. She cultured negative, but the symptoms never went away.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College) issued a Committee Opinion today that says although the absolute risk of planned home births is low, published medical evidence shows it does carry a two- to three-fold increase in the risk of newborn death compared with planned hospital births.

TUESDAY, Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued an updated statement recommending that women aged 65 years or older, and younger women with an increased risk of fractures, should be screened for osteoporosis; the statement has been published online Jan. 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.