The American Medical Association, the American Osteopathic Association, and the Medical Society for the District of Columbia have filed suit against the FTC in an attempt to exclude physicians from its Red Flags Rule, which requires financial institutions and other creditors to develop and implement a written plan for spotting warning signs of identity theft.
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning that high doses and/or long-term use of prescription or over-the-counter proton pump inhibitors may increase risk for fractures of the hip, waist and spine.
Among women living at least 1 year after being diagnosed with breast cancer, aspirin use decreases the likelihood that those women will die from breast cancer or that their cancer will recur, according to a new study.
The author's suggested reading is a thin book titled, Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care, which he says has the potential to change one's professional life.
Pregnant women who are taking antidepressants are at a 68% greater risk for miscarriage than women not taking the drugs, a nested, case-control study from Quebec reports.
People who brush their teeth twice daily may be up to 70% less likely to develop cardiovascular disease than people with poorer oral hygiene, according to a new survey.
Chronic pelvic pain is common in women. The broad differential diagnosis for chronic pelvic pain and overlap in symptoms among etiologies makes diagnosis challenging but underscores the need to conduct a detailed history and careful examination that considers the full spectrum of cases, according to one expert.
New guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists are less restrictive about attempting vaginal birth after cesarean delivery, reflecting concerns about the soaring rate of cesarean deliveries in the United States.
Pregnant women admitted ot the hospital with pandemic novel influenza A (H1N1) are at increased risk for fetal distress, premature delivery, emergency cesarean delivery, and fetal death, according to an observational analysis.
Amenorrhea is defined as the abnormal absence of menstrual periods. Abnormal or pathologic amenorrhea should be distinguished from absence of menses because of physiologic causes such as pregnancy, lactation, and menopause.
A woman had a cesarean delivery through a lower-segment transverse incision in her first pregnancy because of arrest of descent. She has had a uncomplicated second pregnancy and desires a trial of labor; however, at 39 weeks, she requests labor induction because of her husband's travel schedule. Learn how labor induction can affect the risk associated with vaginal birth after cesarean delivery.
The final "meaningful use" rule for adopting electronic health records gives physicians and hospitals some flexibility in meeting objective necessary to qualify for federal cash incentives.
Although retropubic and transobturator midurethral slings may be objectively equivalent in their treatment of stress incontinence, women do not find them subjectively so, and complication rates can difer, according to a randomized trial.
In women younger than 40 years of age, screening mammograms have low accuracy, detect few cancers, and lead to high rates of unnecessary recall and additional imaging, according to a new study.
A Maryland woman received prenatal care from her obstetrician and delivered a child with Down syndrome in 2006. The patient sued her doctor, claiming that he failed to tell her that the "triple screen" blood test he ordered had revealed a 1-in-37 chance of her child being born with Down syndrome. She claimed that had she been informed of the test results, she would have terminated the pregnancy.
The imposition of work-hour restrictions on residents in 2003 has not materially decreased ob/gyn residents' experience in obstetric and gynecologic procedures, according to a new study.
About 1 in every 10 new prospective fathers suffers from depression, which correlates positively with its maternal counterpart, according to new research.
Although vitamin D and calcium absorbed from food and total combined intake from food and supplements do not seem to influence breast cancer risk, vitamin D supplement intake greater than 10 mcg/d compared with no intake reduced the risk of breast cancer by about 25% according to results of a Canadian study.
The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved Natazia, a 4-phasic combination oral contraceptive containing the progestin dienogest and a synthetic estrogen, estradiol valerate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released the first US version of the World Health Organization's advisory on Medical Eligibility Criteria for various contraceptive methods.
Using bar-code verification technology within an electronic medication administration system substantially reduces transcription and medication administration errors along with related potential drug-related adverse events, according to a new study.
Vaginal bleeding during the first trimester of a first pregnancy without miscarrying not only increases the risk for complications later in the pregnancy, but also in future pregnancies, according to study results.
Primary human papillomavirus DNA screening with cytology triage in a routine organized screening program detects more cervical intraepithelial neoplasia III+ lesions in all age groups than conventional cytology, according to new study findings.
With routine antenatal ultrasound and advances in ultrasound technology, fetal intra-abdominal cystic masses are recognized more often and are better characterized than in the past.
Anticipating provisions of the healthcare reform passed by Congress, US health insurers have agreed to stop issuing rescissions, the practice of terminating coverage when a policyholder becomes ill.
A patient presents to a hospital with onset of contraction and spontaneous rupture of the fetal membranes. The rupture revealed clear amniotic fluid. The resident evaluating the patient noted that her cervix was 3 cm dilated and 70% effaced, and the fetus was at -2 station and in vertex position. The patient was placed on oxytocin and was 6 cm to 7 cm dilated within 90 minutes.
A large clinical trial (JUPITER) demonstrated efficacy of a statin in primary prevention of cardiovascular events in menopausal women. Understand the appropriate circumstances by which ob/gyns should prescribe statins for women.
Ovarian cancer is the "silent killer," causing more deaths in the United States than all other gynecologic malignancies combined. This article focuses on the recent debate or whether or when patients with advanced disease should undergo debulking surgery.
From the Annual Conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome
From the Annual Conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome