Monthly Archives: May 2015

ACOG Issues Guidelines for Hereditary Cancer Screening

Risk assessment for hereditary cancer is the key to identifying patients and families who may be at increased risk of developing certain types of gynecologic cancer. Medscape Medical News …read more

ACOG Recommends Expedited Partner Therapy for STIs

To prevent gonorrhea and chlamydial reinfection when a patient’s partners do not seek medical care, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports the use of expedited partner therapy. Medscape Medical News …read more

Drinking chamomile decreases risk of death in older Mexican American women

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found that drinking chamomile tea was associated with a decreased risk of death from all causes in Mexican-American women… …read more

Call to action: Saving 100,000 U.S. mothers in 5 years

The United States now ranks 60th in the world, and worst among developed nations, in maternal mortality. Each year more than 600 women in the United States die from pregnancy and childbirth, and more… …read more

CDC: Tdap vaccine coverage during pregnancy is low

Most women who receive the Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine do so after delivery, contrary to recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunizations Practices, which calls… …read more

Regrets? Opting out of clinical trials may prompt more than a few

Women who choose not to participate in a clinical trial may be significantly more likely to later regret that decision than women who choose to participate in the study, according to a team of Penn… …read more

Pregnancy-related diabetes ‘more likely with a boy’

Risk of gestational diabetes, which produces hyperglycemia in many pregnant women, has been associated with the sex of the fetus in a large new study. …read more

First Study on Bladder Cancers Presenting as UTIs

Patients with bladder cancers who present urinary tract infections, rather than hematuria, have significantly longer time to diagnosis, worse pathology, and increased risk for death. Medscape Medical News …read more

Extended Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy May Pose Risk

An animal study suggests a mechanistic explanation for the previously reported association between protracted acetaminophen use in human pregnancy and increased occurrence of cryptorchidism. Medscape Medical News …read more

Osteoporosis screening is too common for low-risk women and too uncommon for higher-risk women

Many of those who should get it, don’t. And many of those who shouldn’t, do.. That’s the story of a common screening test for osteoporosis, according to new research from UC Davis Health System. …read more