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A woman in active labor was given oxytocin and baby born with brain damage.

A woman underwent surgery for myomectomy, but surgeon could not detect a fibroid and did not open uterus.

Woman, 9 months' pregnant, goes to hospital with severe headache.

The number of Down syndrome births has dropped by half since Denmark introduced national combined risk assessment.

More than half of women prescribed drugs for overactive bladder discontinue treatment after 6 months.

January - December 2008, Volume 53, Editorial Index

MD-JDs offer practical advice and insights to physicians on how to avoid and cope with malpractice suits.

Differentiating the life-threatening from the benign causes of low platelet counts in pregnancy is challenging. Experts HELLP you quickly identify which thrombocytopenias could lead to serious bleeding at delivery.

A woman undergoes surgey to remove benign ovarian cyst and dies from internal bleeding.

Woman delivers baby by forceps and brachial plexus injury occurs.

Cesarean section performed and bowel perforation discovered a week later.

Not offering genetic testing for a 42-year-old woman results in Down syndrome.

Labor for delivery of first child was long and complicated by a transverse arrest.

A woman delivered at a hospital and the delivery was complicated by shoulder dystocia.

Woman was delivered by midwife, shoulder dystocia was encountered, manuevers and episiotomy were employed for delivery.

The California Supreme Court say doctors cannot refuse intrauterine insemination on single, lesbian women.

Here's practical, evidence based advice on what to tell a pregnant with asymptomatic bacteriuria.

The FDA set up a new Web page to provide postmarket drug safety information to patients and providers.

Department of Health and Human Services refuses to release data on grounds that doing so would infringe on physicians' privacy rights.

Brachytherapy after lumpectomy may be an effective alternative to conventional treatments in women with early-stage breast cancer with breast implants.

Carraguard is not effective in preventing vaginal transmission of HIV.

Altering routine practice patterns could alleviate more than half of hospital litigation costs related to obstetric malpractice.

The current system pays hospitals and physicians for procedures rather than maintaining patients' health. That only encourages the deployment of ever more expensive equipment and therapies, with little evidence that they improve health outcomes.

Asthma during pregnancy can be life-threatening. So counsel patients not to stop taking asthma drugs; most are not harmful to a fetus.

The NIH/NICHD has released new guidelines on electronic fetal heart rate assessment. Two experts summarize the new standards and explain their value.

Consumption of caffeine, whether from tea, coffee, chocolate or caffeinated drinks, increases the risk of giving birth to a low birth weight baby, according to the results of a study published Nov. 3 in BMJ Online First.

Most physicians are incorporating BRCA1/2 genetic testing into their clinical practices in a manner that is consistent with established guidelines, according to the results of a national survey published online Nov. 10 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Breast cancer patients have a better chance of survival if they are given psychological support in the form of group sessions with a psychologist, according to a report published online Nov. 17 in Cancer.