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The National Institutes of Health have estimated that over 10 million adult Americans (70% of whom are women) have urinary incontinence. Unfortunately, the makers of protective adult undergarments, diapers that is, would like us to believe that this is a normal part of life that must be dealt with, of course using their products.

The most important part of the ISGE is you, the members. Without the participation of the members there would be no organization and no one place in the World for the exchange of ideas and techniques of gynecologic endoscopy.

The most important part of the ISGE is you, the members. Without the participation of the members there would be no organization and no one place in the World for the exchange of ideas and techniques of gynecologic endoscopy.

Applications for the organisation of an ISGE Annual Congress or Annual Regional Meeting should follow the next format and be set out in a maximum of two A4 format papers for circulation to Board Members.

In 1996 we suggested an explanation of the mechanism of micturition and urinary continence. Urinary continence depends on an intact and strong internal sphincter and an acquired behavior of keeping a high alpha sympathetic tone at the internal sphincter.

Urethro-plasty, a Novel Operation based on a New Concept, for the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) Detrusor Instability (DI), and Mixed-type of Urinary Incontinence

With two out of three Americans overweight today, it's getting harder to believe that all this extra fat is a simple problem of self-indulgence or poor personal discipline. In fact, researchers and clinicians from various sciences say unequivocally that it's not.

Although scientists and clinicians long have suspected that stress influences fertility, a recent study provides evidence that high levels of a biologic marker for stress, alpha-amylase, reduce a woman's chances of conceiving.

Nearly half of women 18 to 44 years old use prescription drugs. Therefore clinicians must be prepared to counsel these patients regarding medication use during conception and pregnancy.

A Virginia woman was treated by her gynecologist for abdominal pain and other symptoms related to endometriosis and underwent abdominal laparoscopy.

Researchers from West Los Angeles Medical Center studied 541,000 population-based records from Kaiser Permanente Southern California to determine whether gestational diabetes mellitus recurred in subsequent pregnancies and whether recurrence was modified by race or ethnicity.

Being born even a few weeks early increases the risk for respiratory distress syndrome, and other respiratory morbidities, according to new study findings.

Women who conceive again within 6 months of a miscarriage have better odds of a successful second pregnancy than women who wait longer, according to a retrospective, population-based study from the United Kingdom.

More than half of all obstetricians and gynecologists have been sued for medical malpractice before reaching the age of 40, according to an AMA survey.

Investigators at the consortium Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network have developed a new system to assign the cause of death in stillbirths.

A New York woman delivered her child in 2003 with a shoulder dystocia. After delivery, the infant was diagnosed with a brachial plexus injury and subsequently was found to have brain damage, with delays in speech and swallowing. In her lawsuit, the woman claimed that the 8 or 9 minutes that it took to relieve the dystocia resulted in asphyxiation of the infant.

According to the findings of the 5-year, randomized, controlled, multicenter embolization versus hysterectomy (EMMY) trial, uterine artery embolization may be an alternative to hysterectomy for some women with symptomatic uterine fibroids.

The more weight a woman gains during pregnancy, the heavier her baby will be at birth, regardless of genetic factors, according to a population-based cohort study.

Urinary tract injuries complicate approximately 1% of all gynecologic procedures, with a ratio of 5 bladder injuries to each ureteral injury. Additionally, urinary tract injuries occur in 0.28% of all cesarean deliveries with a 3-fold risk in repeat cesarean delivery.

Although cigarette smoking decreases slightly the risk for developing preeclampsia, a new study by Canadian researchers suggests that smokers who do develop the condition are at higher risk for the complications associated with the disorder.

After my colleagues and I implemented a highly successful obstetric safety program at Yale New Haven Hospital to reduce adverse outcomes, we naively thought we could easily duplicate our safety efforts in the operating room for gynecologic surgeries by implementing a checklist such as one we had read about in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The 6-month postponement of the proposed 21% reduction in Medicare physician rates should have gone farther, according to ACOG leaders.

Compared with planned hospital births, planned home births are associated with fewer maternal interventions such as operative delivery, episiostomy, epidural analgesia, and electronic fetal heart rate monitoring.

Contraceptive counseling is a frequent and essential component of clinical care delivered by ob/gyns. It is critical for an ob/gyn to not only counsel women on the efficacy of various contraceptive methods but also to discuss the return to fertility after cessation of those contraceptives.

Postmenopausal women who take fish oil supplements may have a one-third lower risk for developing breast cancer than those who don't use supplements, according to study results.

A plaintiff in one case alleged that the defendants were negligent by failing to monitor fetal growth and appropriately estimate fetal weight and position; failing to perform a caesarean delivery and prevent birth trauma during labor and delivery; failing to recognize the signs and symptoms of fetal distress; and negligently using oxytocin in the presence of fetal distress.