May 6th 2024
A recent double-blind, randomized clinical trial revealed a higher clinical pregnancy rate with pioglitazone compared to metformin in polycystic ovarian syndrome patients undergoing in vitro fertilization, suggesting potential for improved outcomes.
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Exploring Unmet Needs In Postpartum Depression – Making the Case for Early Detection and Novel Treatments
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Identifying Health Care Inequities in Screening, Diagnosis, and Trial Access for Breast Cancer Care: Taking Action With Evidence-Based Solutions
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Pelvic pain scale: a systematic approach to chronic pelvic pain patients
October 23rd 2011A pain score is being used to monitor women with a history of chronic pelvic pain. The total score for each day of the month is plotted into a graph and is later correlated to patient's daily activities in order to help with the diagnosis of baseline gynecological conditions.
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Gynecological Pain In The Clinic: Is There A Link With The Basic Research?
October 23rd 2011The basic research of visceral pain mechanisms does not explain the chronic pelvic pain phenomena a gynecologist confronts in the clinic. There is, however, a link between the basic research and the acute gynecologic pain processes observed in the emergency room.
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Diethylstilbestrol, or DES, a synthetic form of estrogen, was prescribed from the early 1940s until 1971 to help women with certain complications of pregnancy, primarily miscarriages. Use of DES declined in the 1960s after studies showed that it might not be effective in preventing pregnancy complications.
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Infertility is a disease that affects the reproductive organs of both men and women. It impairs one of the body’s most basic functions: the ability to have children. Infertility affects about 6.1 million people in the United States alone; ten percent of the reproductive-age population-both men and women.
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What Are The Best Treatment Options Suited For You? Some Guidelines to the Treatment of PCOS
October 12th 2011The following statements are a general consensus and my personal view, but takes into account the establishment of a correct diagnosis of PCOS, the probability of combined complaints, and the presence or absence of a significant associated adrenal androgen hormonal production.
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You've Had A Miscarriage - What Now?
October 12th 2011The process of having a miscarriage can be frightening, painful, and tremendously disappointing. If you had just had a miscarriage, you may be upset and confused about what you have just been through. You may feel that something you did brought on your miscarriage. You may be fearful that you will never have a baby--or another baby, if you already have children.
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Is Your Doctor's Office Online?
October 12th 2011Recent studies show that 90 percent of surveyed adults who are online would like to be able to communicate with their doctor via the Web, and 77 percent said they'd like to be able to ask their doctors questions where no visit is necessary. Now, an online service is helping people take care of their basic medical needs without ever leaving their home or office.
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Fibroid Removal May Be Key To Reducing Certain Recurrent Miscarriages
October 12th 2011By some estimates, as many as 80% of women will have fibroids at some point in their lives. And, although many women are asymptomatic, their presence can cause extreme pain in some women and also may be a factor in infertility issues, with submucosal, intramural and subserosal fibroids (in a decreasing order of importance) impacting infertility. Moreover, some research has linked the presence of uterine fibroids with recurrent miscarriage in women, but the data thus far had been inconclusive.
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A Patient’s Guide: Management of Hair Loss in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
October 11th 2011Thinning hair due to the effects of male hormones (androgens) is called androgenic alopecia. It is a major source of psychological distress to women. This male-pattern hair loss is often seen in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and other disorders of male hormone excess.
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Women Urged to Get Screened for Cervical Cancer During January, Cervical Cancer Screening Month
October 11th 2011To mark January 2004 as Cervical Cancer Screening Month, the National Cervical Cancer Public Education Campaign today urged women to get screened for cervical cancer in order to prevent the disease.
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Patient friendly IVF – IVF in 2 weeks
October 11th 2011While it is true that IVF maximizes a patient’s chance of conceiving quickly, the sad fact is that IVF has become very complex today. Normally, as a technology matures, it usually becomes simpler and easier to implement, but this has not been true with IVF, especially the way it is done in most IVF clinics in the USA today.
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Information on Miscarriages - the double whammy
October 11th 2011Miscarriages (pregnancy loss ) are extremely common and occur in about 10% of all pregnancies. The loss of a pregnancy in a normally fertile woman hurts, but when a woman who has conceived after taking treatment for her infertility problems loses her pregnancy, the loss is far more difficult to bear.
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Pre-Conception Counseling; Some Basic Steps
October 11th 2011There are several steps that each woman should take before she even tries to become pregnant. A visit to a gynecologist (or qualified internist) should occur at least three months before a couple is ready to conceive. During this visit, a full physical examination should be done.
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Minimal Endometriosis: Does It Affect Fertility?
October 11th 2011I am 28 years old and I've been actively trying to get pregnant for the past 2 years. I recently underwent a laparoscopy by my gynecologist. She told me that I had minimal endometriosis, but that my ovaries and tubes looked normal. She told me that endometriosis is associated with infertility, but I don't really understand the connection.
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Insulin-Sensitizing Agents (ISAs) & PCOS: Before you ask for a prescription. . .
October 11th 2011My gynecologist recently told me that I have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and that I should try to lose weight before he gives me fertility medications. A friend told me that I should start taking a medicine to help lower my insulin levels. I'm confused about the connection between insulin and PCOS, and why I need to take an insulin-lowering medicine. I am 28 years old, and otherwise in good health.
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Minimal Endometriosis: Does It Affect Fertility?
October 11th 2011I am a 34 year old woman that would like to have another child. I recently had surgery to remove my gallbladder and in the process there were pictures taken. I was told that my ovary is covered, all except one small area, by what looks like adhesions.
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The Internet in Gynaecology and Obstetrics
October 10th 2011A primitive form of the Internet was first described in 1961–1962 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by L. Kleinrock and J.C.R. Licklider [1]. By the end of 1969, four computers were connected into the first form of the Internet called ARPA-NET (Advanced Research Projects Agency net). In the early 1970s the TCP/IP protocol was in place.
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Gynaecology and the World Wide Web
October 10th 2011How should you start searching for websites in the field of gynaecology? Of course, you could start at the FIGO website (http://www.figo.org), where there is much useful information. FIGO has 101 member societies, of which about 25 have their own websites at this moment.
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The Internet has the potential to revolutionise the way we obtain and disseminate medical information. There is an enormous volume and variety of health-related information on the Internet [1, 2]. Some information available on the Internet about perinatology (aimed at professionals) is discussed here. We restrict ourselves mainly to websites for professionals in the English language.
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The diagnostic sonography (ultrasound) profession is populated by technophiles. In general, people who gravitate to ultrasound are not afraid of technology or computers. For this reason alone, it is not surprising that sonographers and sonologists have flocked to use the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) for education, consultations and communications with colleagues across the globe.
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