All News

Minorities?both racial and ethnic?continue to lack recognition that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the No.1 reason for death in women, even though overall understanding of the disease's rank among death causes has doubled in the last 13 years, a new study shows.

Women of child-bearing age who experienced preterm premature rupture of membranes in a prior pregnancy should consider holding off for at least 18 months before having another child. The guidance is based on research published in the Feb. 4, 2010, online edition of American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

A panel organized by the National Institutes of Health is mulling changes to guidance on vaginal births among women who have previously delivered via cesarean delivery.

There was a time in the late 1990s when it seemed that the author was performing a cerclage every week.

Findings from a retrospective study involving discharge data on 222,751 women from a variety of hospital settings indicate that during the 6-week post-partum period, women are at higher risk for a number of nonurogenital infections.

Influenza A virus is a type of ribonucleic acid, single-stranded, enveloped, orthomyxovirus that contains H and N surface glycoproteins.

Ultrasound screening of all pregnant women for signs of a shortened cervix could be a cost-effective means of lowering the rate of pre-term births, even when routinely performed on low-risk women.

Emotions alone are not enough to prove an allegation of improper care.

For the first time, AHRQ is moving to designate data to be collected to establish a core set of quality indicators of children's healthcare under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.

Menstrual regularity in adolescent girls provides valuable clues about current and future bone integrity.

Breastfeeding may protect mothers against the development of vascular disease, according to a new study.

The federal government has issued 2 sets of regulations to lay groundwork for physicians and hospitals to receive payments for implementing and using electronic medical records.

This department will take a hard look at some of the common things done in OB/Gyn practice.

Liability insurance premiums have eased nationwide for the fourth straight year.

Asymptomatic, nulliparous, heterozygous carriers of the prothrombin gene mutation are 3.6 times as likely as women who do not carry the mutation to experience severe pregnancy complications.

Women with epistaxis during pregnancy are at increased risk for postpartum hemorrhage, even after controlling for cesarean delivery.

Osteoporosis greatly increases the risk of fracture for postmenopausal women, especially older women.

Whether women use assistive reproductive technology, women with endometriosis are about 33% more likely than women without the condition to give birth prematurely, according to a nationwide study.

Women who have breast cancer and who take aspirin 2 to 5 days per week may significantly reduce their risk of dying from the disease and of experiencing its metastasis, according to new research.

Blood pressure issues are prevalent in newborns of mothers who smoked during pregnancy.

Polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs) or flame-retardant chemicals commonly found in household items may contribute to some women?s difficulty in achieving pregnancy, according to University of California-Berkeley researchers.

Gum disease in a mother during pregnancy may raise risk for death of her fetus, according to new research from the Department of Periodontics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).

It is strongly advised that practitioners screen women for depression during and post-pregnancy, according to new OB/Gyn guidelines.

A gene abnormality may negatively impact efficacy of commonly used chemotherapy treatment used for breast cancer patients, report researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Blood pressure issues are prevalent in newborns of mothers who smoked during pregnancy.

According to self-reported information from young women aged 15 to 24 years, about 14% of those who have never had sexual intercourse received a Papanicolaou (Pap) test during the previous year, and about one-third of those who reported being sexually active did not.

Stillbirth (intrauterine fetal death [IUFD]), often defined as the death of a fetus at or after 20 weeks' gestation, complicates about 1 in 160 pregnancies.

Nearly half of approximately 800 women responding to a recent survey reported that the subject of osteoporosis was not brought up during their last routine ob/gyn visit, according to the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).