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SMFM 27th Annual Meeting 2007

SMFM 27th Annual Meeting 2007

SGO Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer in San Diego from March 3-7, 2007

SGO Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer in San Diego from March 3-7, 2007

Our fee-for-service payment system drives up both physician and hospital costs because there's no free market for such services to restrain prices.

Observational studies and placebo-controlled clinical trials have both found that supplemental doses have a therapeutic effect in these patients.

Clinical situations that typically result in litigation and the variation in jury verdicts and awards across the nation.

The latest in medical products for obstetrics and gynecology

To guide health-care providers about the efficacy, safety, and role of local vaginal ET to treat vaginal atrophy in postmenopausal women, The North American Menopause Society has developed an evidence-based position statement.

To minimize risks like birth-related trauma and asphyxia, current management stresses early recognition via ultrasound-which allows for an attempt to correct the breech-and reliance on C/S before onset of labor.

To minimize risks like birth-related trauma and asphyxia, current management stresses early recognition via ultrasound-which allows for an attempt to correct the breech-and reliance on C/S before onset of labor.

An innovative approach to ob emergencies can make these unnerving episodes seem less like an avalanche and more like downhill skiing. One of the keys is replacing sequential with simultaneous activation of the ob team.

Although there are many advantages of solo practices, including total autonomy and not having to compromise in the practice's decisions or share in its successes, for me the disadvantages were much greater.

Question from Johanna: hormone replacement therapy My mother is 69. She had a total hysterectomy in her early 40's. She had to stop hormone treatment due to blood clots. She has not been on any HRT since. She now has bad Osteoarthritis, joint pains, muscle pains, etc. She had Lyme disease a few years ago also in severe stages (10 years ago.) She still feels better when ever they put her on any antibiotics for sore throats for instance. She had a bone density test done recently and her doctor prescribed Miacalcin. Mom has been on 1000 milligrams of Calcium with a combination pill of vitamin D and boron for years. She is becoming more and more bowlegged and has increasingly difficulty walking (it is painful) She does ride her bike since it is not a weight bearing activity. By the afternoon she is very tired. Is it too late for her to have hormone replacement therapy, what kind of doctor should she be seeing, med.'s etc.? Is there a way to reverse this process? Mom has allergies with sinus drainage and gets frequent bronchitis because of it during the winter months. She takes Allegra. Will this interfere with the Miacalcin? Any information you could possibly give me would be appreciated. Thank you very much, Johanna

Questions this month have been answered by:Barry L. Gruber, MD, OBGYN.net Osteoporosis Editorial Advisor Alice Rhoton-Vlasak, MD, OBGYN.net Osteoporosis Editorial AdvisoR. Wayne Whitted, MD, MPh, OBGYN.net Osteoporosis Editorial Advisor Harvey S.Marchbein, MD, USA, OBGYN.net Osteoporosis Chairman and Editorial Advisor

Questions this month have been answered by:Harvey S. Marchbein, MD, USA, OBGYN.net Osteoporosis Chairman and Editorial Advisor

Questions this month have been answered by:Simon Kipersztok, M.D OBGYN.net Editorial Advisor

Regional pain relief may be too risky in patients with coagulation disorders, whether they're induced by anticoagulants to manage or prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes linked with VTE or thrombophilia, or due to a coagulopathy. Benefits and risks can include a rare but catastrophic complication: spinal hematoma.

Medicine's backbeat has changed. Physician recommendations never used to be questioned. Then, managed care entered the scene and third party payers became reticent.

The latest in medical products for obstetrics and gynecology.

Grasping how these surgical tools work can bolster your skills-and could keep you from being 'burned' by potential dangers.

Finding the best contraceptive for each patient requires that you consider not only medical contraindications but also psychosocial variables that affect the adolescent's ability to use contraception effectively.

Despite the inherent unfairness of viewing a physician's actions through the proverbial "retrospectoscope," in cases involving catastrophic brain injuries, a jury will invariably scour the events of the past to ensure that there was nothing the doctor could have done to potentially avoid them.

Is waking repeatedly to void robbing your patient of a good night's sleep? An expert discusses causes and treatment options that can banish her daytime fatigue-and lower her risk of nighttime falls.

Much hope has been placed on the potential preventative effects of low-dose aspirin, which selectively inhibits thromoxane, a vasoconstrictive prostanoid overproduced by the placenta and platelets of women with preeclampsia.

Is waking repeatedly to void robbing your patient of a good night's sleep? An expert discusses causes and treatment options that can banish her daytime fatigue-and lower her risk of nighttime falls.

American physicians view disease as an alien invader that must be defeated at all costs-thus phrases like "beating cancer" and "the war on cancer" capture the public's imagination.

The patient is a very pleasant 76 year old white female gravida 2 para 2002. Her last menstrual period was in 1974. In 1986, she had a right lumpectomy and radiation therapy for breast cancer.