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To maintain a financially healthy practice, obgyns may want to think about alternative malpractice insurance, ancillary services, and astute retirement planning.

Malpractice insurance: Experts give pros and cons of alternatives to traditional liability insurance: risk retention groups and captives.

Wise investments, optimal stock allocation, an understanding of the social security system, and expert financial advice can help physicians achieve a comfortable lifestyle.

Coverage from the 28th annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Coverage from the 28th annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Rh disease may get all the headlines, but immunologic reactions to the Kell antigen can be just as lethal to a K1-positive fetus-if not more so.

Ob/gyns should screen all patients from age 19 to 64 for HIV.

While diagnosing genital and labial herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections isusualy straightforward, treatment is anything but.

Most women who take an OC for at least 1 year resume their regular menses or are able to become pregnant within 90 days of cessation.

Colposcope has intensely brighter light

Noninvasive product is the first FDA-class II device cleared for temporary reduction of the appearance of cellulite.

Fine art sculptures of pregnant women ideal for reception areas of Ob and ultrasound offices.

Free Web resource for health-care professionals and physicians in any diagnostic capacity.

digiChart is a CCHIT Certified Ambulatory electronic health record product for 2007 CCHIT.

OTC oral contraceptive sales would give women greater access to them, helping to lower the high US unintended pregnancy rate, argues one expert. OCs should NOT go OTC, argues another expert.

Immunological reactions to the Kell antigen can cause as much damage to the unborn as Rh disease.

The North American Menopause Society recently updated its position on hormone therapy.

Preeclampsia not diagnosed, placental abruption follows, and fetus is stillborn.

Six days after twin delivery, patient develops postpartum infection.

19-year-old at 37 weeks' gestation in labor and obstetrician shows up late after C/S is performed.

A woman 28 weeks' pregnant with twins has premature delivery.

Woman with abdominal pain and history of prior surgeries was given unnecessary hysterectomy.

During VBAC, 32-year-old woman's uterus ruptures and the feturs is stillborn.

A 32-year-old woman pregnant with her third child and with a history of shoulder dystocia was not offered a cesarean section delivery.

During a D&C, a plastic tip froma surgical instrument was left inside the patient.

A 17-year-old New Jersey woman was 18 weeks' pregnant when an U/S failed to show a fetal stomach.

A 39-year-old woman delivered her third child by VBAC in 2002, and her ob left the hospital 25 minutes after the delivery without repairing a cervical tear.

This is a book about the current medical malpractice climate and lists 39 actions that put a physician at risk for being sued for breast cancer.