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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.

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.

The Jehovah's Witnesses are a branch of Christiainity dating from the late-nineteenth century that has an estimated 7 million followers.

Among postmenopausal women, use of estrogen plus progestin hormone therapy is associated with an increased incidence of more advanced breast cancers and a higher risk for death from breast cancer, according to a randomized trial.

Adequate maternal folate levels are necessary for prevening neural tube defects; however, an insufficent number of woman in the United States avail themselves of folc acid supplementation during their childbearing years, and diet rarely supplies sufficient folate despite the recent fortification of many grains with folic acid.

Although there is no guarantee of fertility, some women can safely become pregnant and deliver healthy babies after undergoing uterine artery embolization for fibroids, according to a retrospective study.

The publication of the National Institute of Child and Health and Human Development recommendations for fetal heart rate interpretation in 1997 brought a major shift in the approach to intrapartum monitoring by standardizing the reading, analysis, and documentation of FHR and uterine contraction tracings.

Cell phone and digital camera pictures are being tested as diagnostic tools.

Contrary to the findings of previous studies, 800 mg/d of DHA delivered via fish oil capsules does not lower levels of postpartum depression in mothers or improve cognitive or language development in their offspring during early childhood, according to one trial.

A 19-year-old woman undergoes transabdominal ultrasound at 20 weeks' gestation. The ultrasound suggests that the placenta may cover the internal cervical os.

A 31-year-old woman presented to the hospital on July 9 at approximately 33 weeks' gestation with heavy vaginal bleeding, pain and high blood pressure.

Annual mammography screening of women in their 40s reduces the breast cancer death rate in these women by nearly 30%, according to a screening study.

Researchers at the University of Missouri Regional Biocontainment Lab are warning clinicians not to be too quick in diagnosing patients presenting with influenza-like symptoms.

A direct association exists between endometrial cancer risk and individual components of the metabolic syndrome beyond simply being overweight, according to a case-control study.

Women who exercise regularly are about 30% less likely to develop endometrial cancer than those who are sedentary, according to one meta-analysis.

In a safety update, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that information about the risk of atypical fractures of the thigh in patients who take bisphosphonates for osteoporosis must be added to the "warnings and precautions" section of the drugs' labels.

Using oral bisphosphonates for the treatment of osteoporosis for at least 5 years approximately doubles the incdience of esophageal cancer per 1,000 population, according to a recent analysis.

A review of the incidence of nephrolithiasis among postmenopausal women receiving estrogen monotherapy or estrogen in combination with progestin suggests that HT increases the risk of stone formation.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Obstetric Practice recommend that all women who are pregnant between October and May receive inactive influenza vaccine.