OBGYN || Obstetrics

Hospital physician orders increased postpartum Tdap vaccination rates

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 18:35

Changing in-hospital ordering procedures for postpartum Tdap vaccination considerably increased vaccination rates in birth mothers, investigators reported in the March issue of the American Journal...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

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

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: 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

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

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

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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