New biomarker for uterine cancer discovered
Researchers at Uppsala University have, together with researchers from Turku and Bergen, discovered a new biomarker which makes it possible to identify women with uterine cancer who have a high… …read more
FDA Panel Backs New Safety Warning on Two Diabetes Drugs
There was no consensus on whether an increased risk for heart failure was a class-wide effect for saxagliptin and alogliptin, but overall CV safety got high marks. News Alerts …read more
Drug withdrawal among babies rising ‘due to prescription of opioids for mothers’
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
Guidelines Updated on Thromboembolic Disease in Pregnancy
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has released updated guidelines on preventing and treating thromboembolic disease in pregnancy. Medscape Medical News …read more
Disrupting Prenatal Care — A Revolution Is Underway
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
Pregnant Women Pass on Opioid Addiction to Infants
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
Neonatal abstinence syndrome risk varies with modifiable factors
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
No association between lung cancer risk in women and reproductive history or hormone use
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
Study finds one of the most accurate ways of determining chances of IVF success
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
Prenatal drug exposure alters brain’s organization
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