According to a recent review of clinical guideline development, the obstetric and gynecologic literature increasingly provides evidence that standardization of care not only improves patient outcomes but also ahs a positive effect on malpractice litigation.
Lower earnings, higher malpractice insurance premiums and longer work weeks-last year was a tough year for ob/gyns, according to Medical Economics' 2010 Exclusive Survey.
Stress urinary incontinence, defined by the International Continence Society as the complaint of involuntary leakage on effort or exertion or on sneezing and coughing, affects 23% to 38% of the female population in the United States over the age of 20 years.
The prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) in children with an Apgar score of 3 less than 5 minutes after birth is more than 130-fold higher than in children with an Apgar score of 10, according to the findings of a population-based study from Norway.
Severe hypoglycemia is strongly associated with increased risks for a range of adverse clinical outcomes, including macrovascular and microvascular events and death, according to a new study.
Although hard data are difficult to find, physician-patient "speed dating" is increasing in popularity nationwide.
The overall number of obstetric and gynecologic procedures performed in the United States has decreased from about 5.3 million in 1979 to 4.9 million in 2006, according to an analysis of data.
The Jehovah's Witnesses are a branch of Christiainity dating from the late-nineteenth century that has an estimated 7 million followers.
Among postmenopausal women, use of estrogen plus progestin hormone therapy is associated with an increased incidence of more advanced breast cancers and a higher risk for death from breast cancer, according to a randomized trial.
Adequate maternal folate levels are necessary for prevening neural tube defects; however, an insufficent number of woman in the United States avail themselves of folc acid supplementation during their childbearing years, and diet rarely supplies sufficient folate despite the recent fortification of many grains with folic acid.
Although there is no guarantee of fertility, some women can safely become pregnant and deliver healthy babies after undergoing uterine artery embolization for fibroids, according to a retrospective study.
The publication of the National Institute of Child and Health and Human Development recommendations for fetal heart rate interpretation in 1997 brought a major shift in the approach to intrapartum monitoring by standardizing the reading, analysis, and documentation of FHR and uterine contraction tracings.
Cell phone and digital camera pictures are being tested as diagnostic tools.
Contrary to the findings of previous studies, 800 mg/d of DHA delivered via fish oil capsules does not lower levels of postpartum depression in mothers or improve cognitive or language development in their offspring during early childhood, according to one trial.
A 19-year-old woman undergoes transabdominal ultrasound at 20 weeks' gestation. The ultrasound suggests that the placenta may cover the internal cervical os.
A 31-year-old woman presented to the hospital on July 9 at approximately 33 weeks' gestation with heavy vaginal bleeding, pain and high blood pressure.
Annual mammography screening of women in their 40s reduces the breast cancer death rate in these women by nearly 30%, according to a screening study.
Researchers at the University of Missouri Regional Biocontainment Lab are warning clinicians not to be too quick in diagnosing patients presenting with influenza-like symptoms.
A direct association exists between endometrial cancer risk and individual components of the metabolic syndrome beyond simply being overweight, according to a case-control study.
Women who exercise regularly are about 30% less likely to develop endometrial cancer than those who are sedentary, according to one meta-analysis.
In a safety update, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that information about the risk of atypical fractures of the thigh in patients who take bisphosphonates for osteoporosis must be added to the "warnings and precautions" section of the drugs' labels.
Using oral bisphosphonates for the treatment of osteoporosis for at least 5 years approximately doubles the incdience of esophageal cancer per 1,000 population, according to a recent analysis.
A review of the incidence of nephrolithiasis among postmenopausal women receiving estrogen monotherapy or estrogen in combination with progestin suggests that HT increases the risk of stone formation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Obstetric Practice recommend that all women who are pregnant between October and May receive inactive influenza vaccine.
In 1994, an Illinois woman received care at a department of public health clinic and was delivered by an obstetrician who had not seen her before delivery.
Almost one-third of deliveries in the United States are by cesarean delivery, and about one-third of all of these are scheduled repeat procedures because of a previous uterine scar, according to new research.
Some women who had an earlier cesarean delivery are not candidates for a trial of labor.
Investigators at Duke University performed an analysis of laparoscopic, robotic, and open abdominal hysterectomy for treatment of endometrial cancer comparing the hospital-related and societal costs associated with each of these procedures.
A Virginia woman underwent a laparascopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy in 2007 performed by her gynecologist. Three days later, the woman required emergency surgery.
A New Jersey woman gave birth to an infant by cesarean delivery in May 2004. The child had neonatal encephalopathy and subsequently was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
