Strategic Pregnancy Delays Can Mitigate Zika-Related Birth Defects
Successful delay strategies are initiated early, last more than 6 months, and are combined with mosquito control practices. Medscape Medical News …read more
Strategic Pregnancy Delays Can Mitigate Zika-Related Birth Defects
Successful delay strategies are initiated early, last more than 6 months, and are combined with mosquito control practices. Medscape Medical News …read more
Hot flash: Women who start menstruation and menopause later more likely to live to 90
The number of women living to age 90 in the United States has increased significantly in the past century. Currently estimated at 1.3 million, this demographic is expected to quadruple by 2050. …read more
Iron Deficiency in Pregnancy Linked to Thyroid Disease
Iron deficiency during pregnancy is seen in over a third of women and increases the risk of thyroid autoimmunity, which ups the risk of miscarriage and poor birth outcomes, new study findings suggest. Medscape Medical News …read more
ACOG Revises Committee Opinion on Planned Home Birth
Revised ACOG committee opinion cited fetal malpresentation, multiple gestation, and previous cesarean delivery as absolute contraindications to at-home delivery. Medscape Medical News …read more
Women more likely to die within 30-days from bacterial blood infection
Staphylococcus aureus blood infection 30% more fatal in women than men, but the reasons remain unclear. …read more
Fluoroquinolone Label Warning Strengthened by FDA
The FDA updated fluoroquinolone labeling to warn against routine use in patients with acute bacterial sinusitis, acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, and uncomplicated urinary tract infections. News Alerts …read more
To cut Zika microcephaly risk, delay pregnancy more than 9 months
Women and couples planning to get pregnant may want to delay that pregnancy more than 9 months if there is an ongoing outbreak of the Zika virus in their area of residence, although that measure… …read more
Gestational diabetes ups risk for infantile hemangiomas
MINNEAPOLIS – Gestational diabetes and prenatal progesterone use were among the maternal factors associated with increased risk of infantile hemangioma, a benign vascular neoplasm whose incidence has… …read more
Late preterm, early term births declining in United States
Rates of late preterm (34-36 weeks) and early preterm (37-38 weeks) births declined significantly in the United States between 2006 and 2014, according to a report published online July 26 in… …read more