One of the first studies to investigate associations between neonatal abstinence syndrome and legal prescription of opioids calls for policy changes to combat opioid ‘epidemic.’ …read more
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has released updated guidelines on preventing and treating thromboembolic disease in pregnancy. Medscape Medical News …read more
Dr Diana Bianchi explains how noninvasive prenatal testing using cell-free DNA is changing the paradigm for prenatal care and fetal screening. Medscape …read more
Almost 30% of women have filled an opioid pain reliever prescription during pregnancy, significantly increasing the risk for infant withdrawal syndrome. Medscape Medical News …read more
Infants born to women taking prescription opioids were more likely to have neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) if their mothers smoked tobacco or took selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs),… …read more
Accurately predicting the probability of a live birth after in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment is important for both those undergoing the treatment and their clinicians. …read more
The Women’s Health Initiative Studies, a large prospective study of lung cancer, found no strong associations between lung cancer risk and a wide range of reproductive history variables and only… …read more
Infants exposed to drugs prenatally had alterations in their brains’ functional organization, a new study shows. A total of 88 such infants were born to mothers who had used either cocaine or other… …read more
Cosmetic procedures in general should be postponed until after pregnancy. Factors to consider in a pregnant patient include the hormonal and physiologic changes of the patient during pregnancy, as… …read more
Dr JoAnn Manson describes how to stratify risk in menopausal women seeking hormone therapy for symptom relief. Medscape Ob/Gyn …read more