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Sexual abuse and neglect are unique predictors of subsequent teen childbirth. This is the conclusion of a study published online by the journal Pediatrics on March 25, 2013.

A study focusing on gender-based differences in gynecologic knowledge among college students has found that college men have less gynecologic knowledge than do college women.

A study supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of more than 2000 women shows that stressful life events increase the risk of stillbirth. The findings, published in The American Journal of Epidemiology, point to a need for ob/gyns to include counseling about stress in prenatal care.

There is no association between in utero exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and stillbirth, neonatal mortality, and infant growth rate during the first year of life, according to the results of 2 unrelated studies.

Women in early pregnancy and those attempting conception are often concerned with altering their lifestyles to achieve and maintain a healthy pregnancy. Patients often ask ob/gyns for recommendations about caffeine intake, exercise, alcohol consumption, and use of artificial sweeteners. In addition to quantity, the question of timing arises: When is the appropriate time for a woman to alter her lifestyle-before conception or after pregnancy is established?

Celiac disease is an inherited autoimmune chronic inflammatory intestinal disease that, uniquely, has a known inciting agent-gluten. Ob/gyns are most likely to encounter women with CD presenting with abdominal and pelvic pain. Irritable bowel syndrome and endometriosis are commonly part of the differential diagnosis.

To optimize treatment and prevent sequelae of STIs in adolescents, screening and diagnosis must be tailored to their unique needs.

These cases are interesting in that they were both defense verdicts and the issues were proving when the retained foreign object was left in the abdomen and what the object was.

A new rapid test for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) provides reliable results in hours, compared with traditional culture that takes days.

You may or may not have read Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us, the cover story of the March 4, 2013, issue of Time magazine. However, I am confident your hospital administrators have read the article and were furious.

Even after stratification by hospital size, teaching status, and geographic location, rates of cesarean delivery among hospitals across the United States vary almost 10-fold-from a low of 7.1% to a high of 69.96%.

A technique that bridges minimally invasive surgery and an open approach appears to have promise for challenging cases in laparoscopic myomectomy and hysterectomy, according to preliminary outcomes from a surgical series by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) taken by a woman during pregnancy do not impact her infant's growth during the first year of life, reports a new small study.

Physicians should recommend that their patients plan for vaginal deliveries rather than cesarean deliveries if there are no maternal or fetal indications for a cesarean. This is the position stated in a new committee opinion from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Obstetric Practice.

A physician and a malpractice attorney discuss the merits of ‘Apology and Disclosure’ programs and their role in obstetrical practice. Do they cut costs or create trouble?

An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to adopt a 1-step approach to the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

The use of robotically assisted hysterectomy for women with benign gynecological disease offers little short-term benefit and has significantly greater costs than laparoscopic hysterectomy, according to the results of a large US cohort study.

In the nearly 40 years since the Yuzpe method was first described, options for emergency contraception-including over-the-counter availability-have expanded. Yet misunderstandings about these methods still exist.

This is an unusual case. Litigation doesn’t usually take decades, but this case went through multiple plaintiffs’ attorneys and sat quiet on the court’s docket until the court was clearing old cases and reexamined it.

Hysteroscopic removal of polyps in women with unexplained infertility may increase their chances of becoming pregnant, concludes an intervention review conducted by the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group.

A study in Sweden has shown that the incidence of genital warts (condylomata) declined by 93% in girls who received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine before age 14. The study was carried out by researchers at Karolinska Institute in Sweden and published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

A study titled “Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Blood Pressure in Blacks” has shown that vitamin D supplementation significantly yet modestly lowered systolic blood pressure in a group of African Americans.

Postpartum depression is a problem for almost 1 out of every 7 women and nearly one-quarter of mothers are depressed at some point in the first year after delivery, according to a study in JAMA Psychiatry.

Hourglassing of membranes or prolapse of membranes through the internal os into the cervical canal is a difficult condition to manage, as it poses a high risk of rupture of membranes if rescue cerclage is attempted.

In patients with gestational diabetes mellitus, metformin is an effective alternative to insulin, according to the findings of a recent single-center randomized controlled study.

Patients with stage IVB, recurrent, or persistent cervical cancer that was not cured with standard treatment who were given the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab lived 3.7 months longer than patients who did not receive the drug, but adverse events increased.

A study assessing the effectiveness of acetaminophen for neonatal pain relief found that use of acetaminophen shortly after birth may aggravate a subsequent stress response.