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.
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.