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Gynecology and obstetrics are twin subjects that deal with the female reproductive system. While obstetrics deals with pregnancy and its associated procedures and complications, gynaecology involves treating women who are not pregnant.

Vaginal delivery for preterm vertex babies not as risky as thought

Vaginal delivery for early preterm infants who have a vertex presentation does not have a significant negative impact on neonatal mortality compared with cesarean delivery, research suggests.

10 Aug 2012

Pre-cesarean antibiotics cut infection risk

Administering prophylactic antibiotics before women undergo cesareans significantly reduces postsurgical infection rates, show US study findings.

9 Aug 2012

Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device proves effective and life-saving

A tiny heart pump that maintains blood flow in babies and small children with serious heart failure proved effective and life-saving in a pioneering study involving 17 institutions led by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).

9 Aug 2012

Inaugural event of National Women's Survivors Convention to be held in Nashville

In August 2013, Nashville will be the host city to the National Women's Survivors Convention (NWSC), a first of its kind national event designed to celebrate women cancer survivors.

9 Aug 2012

Vulvodynia confers risk for other chronic pain syndromes

Women who experience vulvodynia are more likely than those without the pain syndrome to have fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis, and irritable bowel syndrome, research suggests.

8 Aug 2012

Planned cesarean delivery for breech births associated with significantly lower neonatal mortality

Vaginal delivery for early preterm fetuses presenting head first, or vertex presentation, had a high rate of success with no difference in neonatal mortality compared to cesarean delivery, a new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology reports. For breech births, however, the failure rate of vaginal delivery was high and planned cesarean delivery was associated with significantly lower neonatal mortality.

6 Aug 2012

Research roundup: Massachusetts health reform; Role of race and insurance in kidney transplantation

Access to Care After Massachusetts' Health Care Reform: A Safety Net Hospital Patient Survey -- Policy analysts have long said that Massachusetts and its 2006 health reform law provide great insight into the federal health law and how its expansion of insurance coverage will play out.

3 Aug 2012

Giving antibiotics just before cesarean section prevents infections

Giving antibiotics before cesarean section surgery rather than just after the newborn's umbilical cord is clamped cuts the infection rate at the surgical site in half, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

3 Aug 2012

Diabetes impairs women’s sex life

Women with diabetes are less likely to find sex satisfying than those without the condition, despite having similar levels of interest and engagement in sexual activity, show study findings.

3 Aug 2012

Access to quality health care, political will essential for continued progress in reducing maternal mortality

In this Daily Beast opinion piece, Sarah Brown, an adjunct professor at the Institute for Global Health Innovations at Imperial College in London and global patron of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, and Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, head of obstetrics and gynecology and deputy head of clinical sciences at St. George's University of London, highlight the Global Health Policy Summit scheduled to take place in London on Wednesday.

2 Aug 2012

Diabetes impairs women’s sex life

Women with diabetes are less likely to find sex satisfying than those without the condition, despite having similar levels of interest and engagement in sexual activity, show study findings.

1 Aug 2012

Diabetic women more likely to report low overall sexual satisfaction

Women with diabetes are just as likely to be interested in, and engage in, sexual activity as non-diabetic women, but they are much more likely to report low overall sexual satisfaction, according to a UCSF study.

26 Jul 2012

HIV-positive women may use new methods to help reduce frequency of cervical cancer screening

Compared to the general population, HIV-positive women have a high risk of cervical cancer and thus are advised to undergo more frequent screening tests. This creates a burden for HIV-positive patients and the health care system, leading to frequent biopsies, which often do not reveal clinically relevant disease.

23 Jul 2012

NIH-funded Harvard study: 6 million women in America suffer from vulvodynia

According to an NIH-funded Harvard study, an estimated six million women in America suffer from vulvodynia. Despite the astonishingly high number of those affected, the pain is often left misdiagnosed or untreated.

18 Jul 2012

Judge keeps injunction against Miss. abortion law in place

A federal judge continued to block a Mississippi law that could close the state's last abortion clinic, while he considers more evidence.

13 Jul 2012

Women unaware of TOLAC delivery option

Study findings suggest that women eligible for trial of labor after a cesarean know little about their options for mode of delivery, with many leaving the decision up to their physician.

10 Jul 2012

Increasing obesity could cut some couples' fertility in half

As American waistlines continue to expand, research shows that increasing obesity could cut some couples' fertility in half, leading ultimately to a population decline, says one expert in fertility and obesity.

10 Jul 2012

Researchers use maternal blood sample to sequence genome of an unborn baby

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have for the first time sequenced the genome of an unborn baby using only a blood sample from the mother.

5 Jul 2012

CAP/ASCCP LAST Project recommendations for better diagnosis of HPV-associated lesions

The College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) jointly issued The Lower Anogenital Squamous Terminology (LAST) Standardization Project for HPV-Associated Lesions: Background and Consensus Recommendations.

4 Jul 2012

Federal judge temporarily blocks law aimed at closing Mississippi's only abortion clinic

The judge set a July 11 hearing on the state law, which would force physicians at the facility to have admitting rights at a local hospital.

3 Jul 2012

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Vaginal delivery for preterm vertex babies not as risky as thought

Pre-cesarean antibiotics cut infection risk

Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device proves effective and life-saving

Inaugural event of National Women's Survivors Convention to be held in Nashville

Vulvodynia confers risk for other chronic pain syndromes

Planned cesarean delivery for breech births associated with significantly lower neonatal mortality

Research roundup: Massachusetts health reform; Role of race and insurance in kidney transplantation

Giving antibiotics just before cesarean section prevents infections

Diabetes impairs women’s sex life

Access to quality health care, political will essential for continued progress in reducing maternal mortality

Diabetes impairs women’s sex life

Diabetic women more likely to report low overall sexual satisfaction

HIV-positive women may use new methods to help reduce frequency of cervical cancer screening

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Judge keeps injunction against Miss. abortion law in place

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CAP/ASCCP LAST Project recommendations for better diagnosis of HPV-associated lesions

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