Women Say Overwhelming Yes To Ultrasound In New Study
...from the departments of radiology, obstetrics and gynecology , and CHOICES (Centers for Health Outcomes, Innovations and Cost-Effectiveness Studies) at the U-M Medical Center....Earliest Warning Sign Indicates Need To Test For Condition Associated With Fetal Deaths
...awrence J. Gugino, M.D., UB associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics and lead author, at the 46th annual clinical meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Chorioamnionitis is associated with premature rupture of the fetal membrane and premature delivery. Both are indepe...Walking Or Bed Rest OK For First Stage Of Labor, UT Southwestern Research Shows
...outhwesternMedical Center at Dallas obstetrics and gynecology researchers have concludedthat walking during the ...teven Bloom, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology andlead author of the study published in today's New England Journal ofMedicine , said women should...Mini-Pill Increases Risk Of Chronic Diabetes In Women With History Of Diabetes During Pregnancy
... Kjos, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at theUniversity of Southern California School of Medicine. That caution, however, is tempered by good news, Kjos (pronounced KEY-hos) says."The most important finding is that low-dose combination oral contraceptivesappear to be a relatively safe met...... on the study, who is a professor ofobstetrics and gynecology at the Medical School and director of reproductivegenetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Birth defects such as Down syndrome occur more commonly in pregnanciesin women aged 35 and older. For women at advanced maternal age, two procedur...Study Shows Foreign-Trained Doctors Can Ease Rural Physician Shortages
...general practice, internalmedicine, obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics. Physicians who trainedoutside the United States made up a larger percentage of the primary-carephysician work force in rural areas facing doctor shortages than in rural areaswithout shortages. The study also revealed sharp di...Vinegar Offers Dependable Test For Cervical Cancer
...nauthor of the paper and an associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics atHopkins. "Even in countries where Pap smear-based screening is available, it isoften done only in urban settings or in the private sector, which serves arelatively small proportion of the female population. "This technique e......Dr. Platt, who is board-certified inobstetrics and gynecology and in maternal-fetal medicine. The latest 3-Dultrasound system has been in place at Cedars-Sinai for more than a year. Instudies, three dimensional images have not only been used to confirm suspecteddiagnoses, but in some instances to change a diagn...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...ir attention to specifically femalecomplaints, and gynecology -- under the name of fuke, from fu for married woman-- emerged as a separate medical discipline. This emergence was spurred, according to Furth, by the spread of printing tocreate books, so that procedures that had been transmitted directly from mast...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...NIH-funded BUN study,Cedars-Sinai's obstetrics and gynecology program is conducting a concurrentNIH-funded study comparing the diagnostic capabilities of two invasive tests -transabdominal chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and early amniocentesis, which isdefined as amniocentesis taking place before 15 complete w...UNC studying new drug against ovarian and endometrial cancers
...Linda VanLe, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UNC-CH School ofMedicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "And sideeffects associated with traditional chemotherapy can include hair loss anddecrease in white blood cell count. When white cell count is decreased, a maj...New biomarker for cervical cancer
...John Boggess, assistant professorof obstetrics and gynecology at UNC-CH School of Medicine and member of the UNCLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "A lot of women undergo expensivetesting and painful procedures only to find out they've got something thatdoesn't need treatment or is unlikely to become cance...Estrogen may play role in prevention of cataracts
...igsby, Ph.D.,associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology is the lead author. In the study, researchers removed the ovaries of rats before treating themwith methylnitrosourea, a carcinogenic compound that causes breast cancer inlaboratory animals. The rats were divided into groups that receiv...Researchers discover potential new approach to treating cystic fibrosis
...Alvarez is research director forthe obstetrics and gynecology department at Beth Israel Deaconess and anassociate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinologyat Harvard Medical School. Dr. Freedman is director of The Pancreas C...Hormone-like gel causes speedier deliveries, study suggests
... Samuels, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Ohio State University. The research appears in a recent issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. The researchers assessed the time that 61 women s......ill, women were taught such courses as anatomy and gynecology separately from male students, in deference to the women's "sensibilities," and the first woman graduate received hoots from some male students as she accepted her diploma. Sinclair Lewis, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Arrowsmith, modeled his...Missing proteins in the uterus tied to infertility in women with endometriosis
...e A. Lessey, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UNC-CH School of Medicine, suggests that a reduction of the proteins in question may interfere with embryo implantation in the uterine lining. Alphav-beta3 and LIF are present in uterine cells around day 20 of the typical 28-day menstrual cycl......ard B. Hochberg, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale School of Medicine and lead investigator on the study. Scheduled for publication in the June issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, the study showed that the newly-created estrogen does not act systemically and does not stimulate the......David F. Archer, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology at EVMS' Jones Institute of Reproductive Medicine, was among a group of researchers in various parts of the United States who conducted the five-year study, which involved about 2,700 women and was funded by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. The Wome......ecca Z. Sokol, M.D., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and medicine. The high ozone levels produced in the lower atmospherethe result of the release of pollutantsseems to be linked to lower sperm counts and decreased sperm motility in otherwise healthy, fertile men. Sokol reported on this work at the an...