FPN || Women's Health

Laboring women preferred epidural to patient-controlled remifentanil analgesia

Posted on: 28/02/2014 - 19:35

NEW ORLEANS – Laboring women had better overall pain relief satisfaction from epidurals than from remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia, according to results presented at the annual Pregnancy...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

The protective effects of morning sickness

Posted on: 24/02/2014 - 19:40

Up to 80% of women experience morning sickness, and about 25% of them continue to experience symptoms through the second and third trimesters. The delayed-release combination of the antihistamine...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Study finds increased infant mortality for home births

Posted on: 21/02/2014 - 16:45

NEW ORLEANS – Midwife-attended home births appear to have a higher mortality rate than midwife-attended hospital births, a new national database study suggests. But for both physicians and families,...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Noninvasive prenatal testing detects more than 80% of chromosomal abnormalities

Posted on: 19/02/2014 - 21:30

NEW ORLEANS – Noninvasive prenatal testing using cell-free fetal DNA found in the maternal bloodstream detects more than 80% of the most common trisomies, including the one for Down syndrome,...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Annual mammography at age 40-59 provides no survival benefit

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 20:55

Annual mammography in women aged 40 to 59 years was no more effective than was physical examination or usual care for reducing breast cancer mortality when adjuvant therapy for breast cancer is...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Annual mammography at age 40-59 provides no survival benefit

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 20:55

Annual mammography in women aged 40 to 59 years was no more effective than was physical examination or usual care for reducing breast cancer mortality when adjuvant therapy for breast cancer is...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Suppressing interpregnancy HIV prevents infant transmission

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 17:55

NEW ORLEANS – There were no cases of HIV transmission to infants born of a second pregnancy to mothers who maintained viral suppression between their two pregnancies, a study showed. In a...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Suppressing interpregnancy HIV prevents infant transmission

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 17:55

NEW ORLEANS – There were no cases of HIV transmission to infants born of a second pregnancy to mothers who maintained viral suppression between their two pregnancies, a study showed. In a...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Opportunities to boost cardiovascular disease awareness

Posted on: 30/12/2013 - 21:25

DALLAS – A mere 28% of 1,013 surveyed New York–area women correctly identified cardiovascular disease as the No. 1 killer of women. And two-thirds of those women said their primary care provider is...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Mild coronary artery disease is gender blind

Posted on: 30/12/2013 - 19:55

CHICAGO – Men and women may not really be all that different when it comes to mild coronary artery disease. A prospective, multinational registry analysis found that 1.2% of women and 1.1% of men...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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