A review of two clinical trials that are a part of the Women’s Health Initiative delves further into the association between hormone therapy and the risk of breast cancer. …read more
A large, population-based study has shown fewer adverse outcomes with cesarean delivery vs either cesarean delivery during labor or vaginal delivery for breech presentation. Medscape Medical News …read more
Publicly funded labiaplasties in Australia and the United Kingdom have more than doubled over the last decade, leading experts said at the RCOG/RANZCOG World Congress in Brisbane, Australia. …read more
Obstetricians and gynecologists have a unique opportunity to educate and encourage minority women to nurse their infants to help reduce persistent racial and ethnic disparities in breastfeeding. …read more
US mothers have about a 24-month gap between pregnancies, although the gap tends to be shorter in younger mothers, new data suggest. Medscape Medical News …read more
Obstetric providers are being called upon to care for an increasing number of cancer survivors. Whether it was a childhood cancer or one faced in early adulthood, pregnant cancer survivors raise a… …read more
In 2011, nearly 30% of women who gave birth to single infants had an interval of less than 18 months between the conception of their most recent pregnancy and the birth of their previous child,… …read more
We look at the main causes of hair loss in women, the emotional impact it can have and why research into new treatments for female hair loss appears to have been lagging. …read more
Duplications in maternal DNA were mistaken for fetal trisomies in cell-free DNA-based noninvasive prenatal screening; experts emphasize the need for confirmatory testing. Medscape Medical News …read more
Metformin and glyburide are both as effective as insulin in the management of gestational diabetes, a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials has found, though their risk profiles differ. The… …read more