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What's the right number of embryos to transfer in each patient? An authority on the subject discusses the newly released ASRM committee guidelines and their practical implications.

Although some critics continue to question the value of breast screening, the scientific evidence supporting it is rock solid.

What's the right number of embryos to transfer in each patient? An authority on the subject discusses the newly released ASRM committee guidelines and their practical implications.

My interest in infectious disease started in grade school, when I'd examine myself for the mysterious and fascinating rashes I saw in my parents' handbook on childhood illnesses.

Ending months of speculation, Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has picked Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) as his running mate. Kerry's choice offers insights into his administration's likely health-care priorities. And unfortunately for ob/gyns, it also raises profound concerns about the prospects for federal tort reform during a Kerry-Edwards administration.

Here's what you need to know to identify patients at higher risk for SSIs and provide effective preventive strategies. These measures include good glucose control and well-timed prophylactic antibiotics.

Skillful interpretation of ultrasound images, hCG values, and patients' signs and symptoms can help identify ectopics early on. Once the diagnosis is made, salpingectomy, salpingostomy, and methotrexate are your therapeutic options.

An expert in the field provides a balanced approach to protecting patients from this potentially lethal infection.

In the 2 years since I completed my ob/gyn training, I've had four jobs in three different practice settings in three different cities. I'm now headed back where I started geographically, combining the practice of obstetrics and gynecology with raising a rambunctious 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old Hllary Duff-wannabe as a single parent.

Letters of recommendation about former employees can put you in legal hot water?unless you follow these guidelines

She is the first of my cohort to die. Age 46. Endometrial cancer.

Acute pelvic pain early in pregnancy can be linked to a number of conditions, including appendicitis and urolithiasis. When the cause is torsion, saving the organ requires immediate and accurate treatment.

In our Controversies in OB/GYN section, Drs. Bachmann, Gupta, and Weiss discuss their opinions on the condition of androgen insufficiency in women.

Although I am the new interim administrative director, I am familiar with the society. In fact, I am one of the founding members and I was the first ISGE secretary. Compared to the early years of the society, endoscopy today is much more advanced.

Nearly twice as many women as men suffer from clinical depression, and up to 50% of ob/gyn patients have the disorder or its symptoms. Since you may be the only clinician many of these women see, you're uniquely positioned to detect its presence and steer patients toward appropriate treatment.

Delay in aggressively treating out-of-control, unremitting vomiting in pregnancy can dehydrate, deplete, and nearly starve a woman and her fetus. This expert's approach tells you how to quickly distinguish developing hyperemesis gravidarum from something more benign.

The only way for women's health care as we know it to survive is if young ob/gyns lead the way in saying NO. Let's stop taking the horrible contracts offered by insurance companies, HMOs, and managed-care organizations and take back control of our futures.

The challenge is to identify this potentially life-threatening infection in time--and to treat it aggressively. The condition can appear out of the blue after vaginal delivery, C/S, or any gynecologic surgery.

There are two surgical approaches to tubal sterlization: open and closed. The open approach is commonly used for postpartum tubal sterilization, concomitant cesarean delivery, and interval minilaparotomy.