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OB/GYN General

Model Fails to Predict Risk for Maternal ICU Admission

Jul 26, 2019

FRIDAY, July 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A predictive model that uses prenatal risk factors to help identify women at higher risk for admission to the maternal intensive care unit (ICU) has low posit...

Review Supports Testosterone for Low Sexual Desire in Women

Jul 26, 2019

FRIDAY, July 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For postmenopausal women with low sexual desire causing distress, testosterone is an effective treatment, with a preference for nonoral administration, accord...

Exposure to Air Pollution Tied to Raised Odds of NICU Admission

Jul 25, 2019

THURSDAY, July 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Acute exposure to pollutants in the week prior to delivery and day of delivery is associated with increased odds of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admi...

Why We Should Ban the Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

Jul 24, 2019

Dr. Omar El-Agnaf, Executive Director of Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, argues that regional governments should act swiftly to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that ca...

Allergan Recalls Textured Breast Implants Linked to Lymphoma

Jul 24, 2019

WEDNESDAY, July 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Allergan's textured breast implants will be recalled due to their link to a rare cancer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. Follow...

Tissue Adhesive, Sterile Strips Similar After Cesarean Section

Jul 24, 2019

WEDNESDAY, July 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- With cesarean deliveries, wound complications are similar for tissue adhesive and sterile strips when used after closure of a Pfannenstiel skin incision, a...

Mediterranean Diet May Reduce Gestational Diabetes Risk

Jul 24, 2019

WEDNESDAY, July 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Following a Mediterranean diet in pregnancy does not reduce the risk for adverse maternal and offspring complications but may reduce the odds of gestationa...

Gender Bias Narratives in Medicine

Jul 23, 2019

“At my interview for residency at a prestigious midwestern university hospital, the chairman asked me if my low grades in a few classes were due to “ chasing boys”. (sic) Then he said as long as...

Neural-Tube Defects Up for Offspring of Women on Dolutegravir

Jul 23, 2019

TUESDAY, July 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For HIV-infected women receiving dolutegravir from the time of conception, 0.3 percent have offspring with neural-tube defects, representing a small but sign...

USPSTF Reaffirms Benefit of Hep B Screening in Pregnant Women

Jul 23, 2019

TUESDAY, July 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening pregnant women for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection at their first prenatal visit (A r...

New ACC/AHA Guidelines Detect More Cases of Gestational Hypertension

Jul 22, 2019

MONDAY, July 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Adopting the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for hypertension resulted in an increase in the prevalence of high bloo...

Frequency of Cannabis Use Before, During Pregnancy Increasing

Jul 19, 2019

FRIDAY, July 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- From 2009 to 2017, the frequency of cannabis use in the year before pregnancy and during pregnancy increased, according to a study published online July 19 in...

Pregnancies in Women Taking Isotretinoin Dropped Since 2006

Jul 18, 2019

THURSDAY, July 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Since initiation of the iPLEDGE program in 2006 to reduce fetal exposure to isotretinoin, there has been a reduction in pregnancies among women taking isotr...

Prevalence of Suicide Ideation 4.6 Percent in Pregnant Women

Jul 18, 2019

THURSDAY, July 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For low-income pregnant women, the prevalence of suicide ideation is 4.6 percent, with increased odds of suicide ideation for women with depression, accordi...

Prepregnancy Surgery Linked to Risk for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Jul 15, 2019

MONDAY, July 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Prepregnancy surgery is associated with elevated neonatal abstinence syndrome risk in future pregnancies, according to a study published in the July 15 issue ...

Prenatal Opioid Exposure Harms Long-Term Child Development

Jul 12, 2019

FRIDAY, July 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Prenatal opioid exposure (POE) is negatively associated with neurocognitive and physical development in offspring from the age of 6 months into school age, ac...

Exposure to 2009 pH1N1 Vaccine During Pregnancy Seems Safe

Jul 11, 2019

THURSDAY, July 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to the 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza vaccine in pregnancy is not associated with most negative health outcomes among offspring, according to...

New WIC Food Options Improve Maternal, Birth Outcomes

Jul 10, 2019

WEDNESDAY, July 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Revisions to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food package are associated with beneficial impacts on mater...

Guidance Updated for Managing Infants at Risk for Group B Strep

Jul 10, 2019

WEDNESDAY, July 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Guidelines for the management and treatment of group B streptococcal (GBS) disease in infants were published online July 8 in Pediatrics. Karen M. Puopolo...

Focus on Ovarian Cancer Surgical Volume May Not Be Best Metric

Jul 10, 2019

WEDNESDAY, July 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Limiting ovarian cancer surgery to high-volume surgeons and hospitals to improve survival could restrict care at many low-volume centers with better-than-e...

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