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A cesarean first birth increases the risks for placenta previa and placenta abruption in subsequent pregnancies. So does a short interpregnancy interval, according to a retrospective cohort study of almost 200,000 singleton pregnancies.

We and today's fresh-faced interns do have something in common: the one person who taught or will teach us how to really be doctors: a seasoned, bright nurse.

These easily taught birth control methods may be just what some patients are looking for. Nonhormonal approaches like the Standard Days and the TwoDay Methods hinge on identifying a woman's fertile window: the days during her cycle when pregnancy is likely.

Mary is a 26-year-old G1,P0 who is 34 weeks' pregnant with an uncomplicated, singleton gestation. She's in for a routine prenatal visit and asks, "When do I have to quit working?"

I started skipping periods about two years ago at the age of 40. I have not had a period now for about 4 months and I am having what I believe to be hot flashes.

Over 300 therapies have been proposed for premenstrual syndrome. To date there has been only one survey conducted in the UK of PMS treatments prescribed by GPs, a questionnaire-based study by the National Association of Premenstrual Syndrome in 1989.

It is in your best health interest to see your gynecologist or primary care physician regarding specific medical problems or concerns.

It is in your best health interest to see your gynecologist or primary care physician regarding specific medical problems or concerns.

It is in your best health interest to see your gynecologist or primary care physician regarding specific medical problems or concerns.

I started to take Femhrt one month ago. Since them I got a regular period and some spot bleedings. My concern besides the bleeding that according to my GYN is normal, is that I am hungry all they.

I would really appreciate some advice. For the last 8 years I have experience pain during sex, from at best sore to simply excruciating. The pain is worst on entry but leaves me sore afterwards.

In general, ISAs have not been studied for long term use. The only studies in women with PCOS have related to helping those women ovulate (i.e. short term use).

Although clomiphene citrate and FSH remain the mainstay of therapy for ovarian stimulation among women with unexplained infertility, both drugs have their shortcomings. Two experts present the evidence supporting the value of AIs in this patient population.

A leading expert helps you educate yourself-and your patients-about putting combined HPV-Pap testing into practice. Patient education should stress how common HPV is and explain the high level of reassurance testing negative on both tests affords.

Using a risk assessment score that incorporates CA 125 values, prealbumin, and menopausal status may help predict which women presenting with a pelvic mass are most likely to have ovarian cancer, according to this prize-winning paper presented at the 2006 ACOG clinical meeting in Washington, D.C.

You can accurately test for Neisseria gonorrheae (NG) and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) using the same liquid Pap specimens collected for cervical cytology, researchers from University of Oklahoma college of Medicine in Tulsa have concluded.

While oral misoprostol isn't superior to vaginal dinoprostone for induction of labor at term, it isn't inferior either. It doesn't lead to poorer health outcomes for women or their infants and offers a preferred route of administration.

Despite all the negative reports in the lay press claiming the latest WHI study proved that calcium/vitamin D supplements do not prevent fractures in postmenopausal women, a closer look at the results clearly shows that they do.