May 1, 2009
By:Contemporary OB/GYN Staff
ACOG is urging ob/gyns to increase access to women's health services in nonurban areas.
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May 1, 2009
By:Contemporary OB/GYN Staff
ACOG fully supports same federal and state legal protection for lesbian couples as for heterosexual couples.
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Mar 15, 2009
Women who develop diabetes before or during pregnancy are likelier to experience perinatal depresssion.
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Feb 15, 2009
In unilateral breast cancer patients, evaluating 5-year Gail risk and histologic findings in the ipsilateral breast may predict the risk of developing cancer in the other breast and help clinicians decide whether to perform a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy.
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Feb 15, 2009
Postmenopausal women who use loop diuretics are at increased risk of fractures, according to a published report.
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Jan 15, 2009
Older adults may lose less bone loss if they increase the alkali content of their diet, according to research released online in October in advance of publication in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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What can you do right now in your daily practice to prevent the three most common—and potentially dangerous—types of medical errors?
Jan 1, 2007
By:Paul G. Stumpf, MD
What can you do right now in your daily practice to prevent the three most common—and potentially dangerous—types of medical errors?
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Ob/gyns are increasingly being called upon to manage subclinical thyroid disease. In this concluding article of a two-part series, two experts clarify the controversy over when to treat mild hyperthyroidism. Do treat a mildly overactive thyroid in elderly patients, they say, because low bone density and cardiac abnormalities can do substantial harm.
Sep 1, 2006
By:Rebecca Fenichel, MD, Terry F. Davies, MD
Ob/gyns are increasingly being called upon to manage subclinical thyroid disease. In this concluding article of a two-part series, two experts clarify the controversy over when to treat mild hyperthyroidism. Do treat a mildly overactive thyroid in elderly patients, they say, because low bone density and cardiac abnormalities can do substantial harm.
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Whether to treat mild hypothyroidism is controversial—but ob/gyns are increasingly concerned about links with menstrual dysfunction, infertility, early labor, and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring. In the first of two articles on subclinical thyroid disease, two experts provide the information needed to make that call.
Jan 1, 2006
By:Rebecca Fenichel, MD, Terry F. Davies, MD
Whether to treat mild hypothyroidism is controversial—but ob/gyns are increasingly concerned about links with menstrual dysfunction, infertility, early labor, and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring. In the first of two articles on subclinical thyroid disease, two experts provide the information needed to make that call.
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