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Breastfeeding may protect mothers against the development of vascular disease, according to a new study.

The federal government has issued 2 sets of regulations to lay groundwork for physicians and hospitals to receive payments for implementing and using electronic medical records.

This department will take a hard look at some of the common things done in OB/Gyn practice.

Liability insurance premiums have eased nationwide for the fourth straight year.

Asymptomatic, nulliparous, heterozygous carriers of the prothrombin gene mutation are 3.6 times as likely as women who do not carry the mutation to experience severe pregnancy complications.

Women with epistaxis during pregnancy are at increased risk for postpartum hemorrhage, even after controlling for cesarean delivery.

Osteoporosis greatly increases the risk of fracture for postmenopausal women, especially older women.

Whether women use assistive reproductive technology, women with endometriosis are about 33% more likely than women without the condition to give birth prematurely, according to a nationwide study.

Women who have breast cancer and who take aspirin 2 to 5 days per week may significantly reduce their risk of dying from the disease and of experiencing its metastasis, according to new research.

Polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs) or flame-retardant chemicals commonly found in household items may contribute to some women?s difficulty in achieving pregnancy, according to University of California-Berkeley researchers.

Gum disease in a mother during pregnancy may raise risk for death of her fetus, according to new research from the Department of Periodontics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).

It is strongly advised that practitioners screen women for depression during and post-pregnancy, according to new OB/Gyn guidelines.

A gene abnormality may negatively impact efficacy of commonly used chemotherapy treatment used for breast cancer patients, report researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Blood pressure issues are prevalent in newborns of mothers who smoked during pregnancy.

According to self-reported information from young women aged 15 to 24 years, about 14% of those who have never had sexual intercourse received a Papanicolaou (Pap) test during the previous year, and about one-third of those who reported being sexually active did not.

Stillbirth (intrauterine fetal death [IUFD]), often defined as the death of a fetus at or after 20 weeks' gestation, complicates about 1 in 160 pregnancies.

Nearly half of approximately 800 women responding to a recent survey reported that the subject of osteoporosis was not brought up during their last routine ob/gyn visit, according to the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

Because some practices have been slow to adopt electronic health records, scant evidence exists to support the commonly held notion that EHRs help mitigate liability risk, according to a published report in American Medical News.

Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the urethra, along with static MRI, may benefit women who are experiencing lower urinary tract symptoms by helping to detect pelvic organ prolapse, according to researchers at New York University Medical Center's Department of Radiology.

In an effort to standardize terminology and understanding of assisted reproduction and gain recognition of infertility as a true disease worthy of insurance reimbursement and government funding, the World Health Organization and the International Committee for Monitoring Assisted eproductive Technologies recently released a new international glossary of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) terminology.

Middle-aged women are gaining ground on their male counterparts in their prevalence of myocardial infarction and their cardiovascular risk factor scores, according to a review of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys over time.

The US Preventive Services Task Force's new guidelines for breast cancer screening were met with an outcry from many medical and consumer groups when they were published in November.

Electronic feta l heart rate (FHR) monitoring was introduced in the late 1960s with the hope of preventing intrapartum fetal brain injury and cerebral palsy (CP). However, it is now clear that this hope was unrealistic for at least 2 reasons. First, the false-positive rate of intrapartum FHR monitoring for predicting CP exceeds 99%. Except in the most extreme cases, intrapartum FHR monitoring has never been capable of reliably predicting CP.

Compared with nonsmoking mothers, mothers who smoke are less apt to breastfeed their babies. In addition, among mothers who smoke and who choose to breastfeed, the length of time during which they do so may be shortened, compared with nonsmoking mothers, according to new research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Risk management in obstetrics and gynecology addresses D&C, negligence in removing ovary, prevention of premature delivery

Celiac disease occurs in roughly 1% of all humans. It is an autoimmune condition initially caused by hypersensitivity and hyperimmunity to a class of proteins, called gliadins, which are found in the outer husk of common grains such as wheat, barley, rye, and oats.

About 1 in 200 deaths of women of childbearing age in California is because of Clostridium sordellii toxic shock (CSTS), according to the findings of a recent population-based study.

Investigators have developed and validated 2 new fracture risk algorithms for estimating the individual risk of osteoporotic fracture or hip fracture over a 10-year time period.