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VIDEO: Asthma meds’ safety data reassuring in pregnancy

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 16:40

SAN DIEGO – How safe are asthma medications during pregnancy? And how adherent are pregnant women to asthma medications? Dr. Jennifer A. Namazy of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, Calif., summarizes the...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

CDC sounds alarm on hospital antibiotic use

Posted on: 04/03/2014 - 22:45

A scathing new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found ample room for improvement in inpatient antibiotic prescribing. Findings include continued overuse of antibiotics in...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

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

Antiphospholipid, thrombosis histories differently affect pregnancy antithrombotic needs

Posted on: 26/02/2014 - 22:10

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Whether a woman with antiphospholipid antibodies meets diagnostic criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome makes a huge difference in her risk of pregnancy failure. Having...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Antiphospholipid, thrombosis histories differently affect pregnancy antithrombotic needs

Posted on: 26/02/2014 - 22:10

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Whether a woman with antiphospholipid antibodies meets diagnostic criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome makes a huge difference in her risk of pregnancy failure. Having...

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

VIDEO: Moderate exercise reduced women’s stroke risk

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 18:45

SAN DIEGO – Moderate exercise reduced the risk of stroke by 12%-22% and appeared to offset some of the increased stroke risk from postmenopausal hormone therapy. We spoke to Sophia S. Wang, Ph.D.,...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Moderate exercise reduces female stroke risk

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 17:30

SAN DIEGO – Moderate exercise significantly reduced the risk of stroke in women and seemed to offset much but not all of the increased stroke risk in postmenopausal women on hormone therapy, a large...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Longer period of postpartum thromboembolic risk raises therapeutic questions

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

Findings from a large study of women following their first pregnancy extend the postpartum period of heightened risk for thromboembolic events from the previously known 6 weeks to 12 weeks, leaving...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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