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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.

Male urinary symptoms do not improve and erectile issues worsen after gastric banding surgery

Researchers found an 11% treatment effect in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) taking rifaximin (Xifaxan) for 2 weeks; 40% of patients receiving the medication reported adequate relief of symptoms.

Researchers from Australia have found that women older than 70 years who report eating chocolate at least once per week are 35% less likely to be hospitalized or die from heart disease over a 10-year period and are nearly 60% less likely to be hospitalized or die from heart failure.

A pregnant woman underwent a blood test that showed the fetus had an increased risk of Down Syndrome. The infant was born with Down Syndrome and the woman sued the obstetrician, claiming she was not informed of the risk during pregnancy.

In response to the latest analysis of the Women's Health Initiative randomized study of postmenopausal women taking hormone therapy, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists adivsed ob/gyns to continue to counsel women who are considering hormone therapy for relief of menopausal symptoms to use the lowest effective dose for the shortest period of time.

A national survey of 1,154 ob/gyns with a variety of religious affiliations found general support for the use of contraception, though some respondents had ethical reservations about specific contraceptive methods.

On November 19, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidelines for the prevention of neonatal group B streptococcal GBS infections, which replace the 2002 CDC guidelines.

Nearly two-thirds of young, low-income, ethnic minority women exceed maximum recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy and more than half retain ≥10 lbs 1 year postpartum, new study findings show.

In spite of receiving identical care, African Americans are more likely to have a recurrence of uterine cancer than their Caucasian counterparts.

Eating a healthy diet, not smoking, drinking alcohol in moderation, keeping waist circumference below 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men, and exercising at least 30 minutes per day could prevent almost one-fourth of the global cases of colon cancer diagnosed each year, according to results of a new study.

Infants born under the care of midwives to women who are at low risk for problems may be at more than twice the risk for delivery-related perinatal death and at the same risk for admittance to the neonatal intensive care unit as infants of women at high risk born under the supervision of obstetricians, according to a new study.

Results of a small study suggest that clinicians caution their patients of reproductive age that home fertility tests are unreliable indcators of fertility.

Women with a high level of cardiorespiratory fitness, regardless of weight, have lower all-cause mortality than less-fit women who weigh less, according to a recent study.

Hyperemesis gravidarum, severe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, appears to be influenced at least in part by genetics, according to study findings.

According to a recent review of clinical guideline development, the obstetric and gynecologic literature increasingly provides evidence that standardization of care not only improves patient outcomes but also ahs a positive effect on malpractice litigation.

Lower earnings, higher malpractice insurance premiums and longer work weeks-last year was a tough year for ob/gyns, according to Medical Economics' 2010 Exclusive Survey.

Stress urinary incontinence, defined by the International Continence Society as the complaint of involuntary leakage on effort or exertion or on sneezing and coughing, affects 23% to 38% of the female population in the United States over the age of 20 years.

The prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) in children with an Apgar score of 3 less than 5 minutes after birth is more than 130-fold higher than in children with an Apgar score of 10, according to the findings of a population-based study from Norway.

Severe hypoglycemia is strongly associated with increased risks for a range of adverse clinical outcomes, including macrovascular and microvascular events and death, according to a new study.

Although hard data are difficult to find, physician-patient "speed dating" is increasing in popularity nationwide.

The overall number of obstetric and gynecologic procedures performed in the United States has decreased from about 5.3 million in 1979 to 4.9 million in 2006, according to an analysis of data.