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Are these symptoms of Menopause?Am I experiencing Perimenopause? What should I expect from HRT?

This month's topics: Ovarian Pain & Cysts, Surgery Pain & Adhesions, Vulvodynia, Vulvar Pain and Other Questions

Aromatase inhibitors have surpassed tamoxifen in treatment of recurrent breast cancer. Will the same be true for early disease? An expert examines the evidence from ongoing clinical trials.

Your postpartum patient's profuse bleeding is threatening her life. When every minute counts, you'll need a well-informed, stepwise action plan.

You may not have been trained as a CEO, but unless you sharpen your business skills, your clinical skills may be all for naught. In the first of our 3-part series, a seasoned physician executive outlines the tools needed to manage people, profits, and policies.

If you have an infertile patient whose insurance does not cover in vitro fertilization, there's hope.

In an attempt to improve quality of care and reduce costs, Blue Shield of California recently devised a pilot program that compares the practice patterns of solo practitioners against that of peer specialty groups in their region.

Drinking two or more cups of tea a day can lower a woman's chances of getting ovarian cancer by 46%.

The FDA recently issued an alert based on early findings of two new studies suggesting that paroxetine (Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline [GSK]) increases the risk for congenital malformations, particularly those of a cardiac nature, when it is taken by women during the first trimester of pregnancy.

While the reasons for the shorter survival of black women with breast cancer compared to their white counterparts are still not completely understood, new research indicates that most of these women die of causes other than breast cancer and that diabetes and hypertension play important roles.

While the risks for a first-time venous thromboembolism (VTE) or pulmonary embolism (PE) increase with each trimester of pregnancy, they peak during the postpartum period when they are five and 15 times greater, respectively, than during pregnancy, according to the findings of a 30-year population-based study of 50,000 women.

In an effort to improve the diagnosis of breast cancer, an international panel of 23 expert surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, and oncologists recently recommended expanding the roles of minimally invasive needle and sentinel node biopsies and severely limiting the role of open surgical biopsies, citing that almost one third of the 1.7 million breast biopsies performed in the United States are still done surgically.

The percentage of physicians engaged in research in the United States dropped from 4.6% in 1985 to 1.8% in 2003.

I am really hoping you can help me. I was diagnosed last year with Low Malignant Potential ovarian cancer and had a bilateral oophorectomy.

Inside this Issue: Editor's Corner President's Message Vice Presidents Message Endometriosis Association Registry of Cervical Pregnancy Endometriosis: Personal opinions

The objectives of this study were 1. To identify differences between men with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS), compared with pain-free men, in surface electromyography (sEMG)/Biofeedback (BFB) readings of pelvic floor muscles and 2.

It is in your best health interest to see your gynecologist or primary care physician regarding specific medical problems or concerns.

It is in your best health interest to see your gynecologist or primary care physician regarding specific medical problems or concerns.

It is in your best health interest to see your gynecologist or primary care physician regarding specific medical problems or concerns.

Are these symptoms of Menopause?Am I experiencing Perimenopause?What should I expect from HRT?

This month's topics: Chronic Pelvic Pain, Ovarian Pain & Cysts, Hysterectomy Pain, Surgery Pain & Adhesions, Endometriosis & Adenomyosis and Other Questions

Although many ob/gyns believe they already work on an interdisciplinary team, most don't really apply the principles of teamwork on labor and delivery. This Harvard team has discovered that applying the concepts used by military and commercial flight teams—an approach called Crew Resource Management—can improve patient safety and reduce the epidemic of lawsuits plaguing the specialty.

A cholesterol-lowering diet during pregnancy may do more than just modify maternal lipid levels; it may significantly reduce the rate of preterm birth among low-risk women, according to researchers from Norway.

No issue is more central to global well-being than the health of mothers and their babies. Every individual, every family, every community at some point or another is intimately involved with pregnancy and the success of childbirth. And yet every day, 1,600 women and more than 10,000 newborns die due to complications that could have been prevented.

Counseling patients on screening for Down syndrome has long been a challenge. Findings from the FASTER trial provide solid evidence upon which to base recommendations for first- or second-trimester testing, or a combination of both.

Whether to treat mild hypothyroidism is controversial—but ob/gyns are increasingly concerned about links with menstrual dysfunction, infertility, early labor, and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring. In the first of two articles on subclinical thyroid disease, two experts provide the information needed to make that call.

Although many ob/gyns believe they already work on an interdisciplinary team, most don't really apply the principles of teamwork on labor and delivery. This Harvard team has discovered that applying the concepts used by military and commercial flight teams—an approach called Crew Resource Management—can improve patient safety and reduce the epidemic of lawsuits plaguing the specialty.