The clinical features of perinatal women with bipolar disorder are much more severe than those of women seeking care for other psychiatric conditions, including greater history of suicidal behavior...
Clinicians and the public have held great hope for years that genomic analysis would transform the prevention and treatment of disease, but although costs may be plummeting, challenges persist,...
U.S. surveillance data show that half of high-grade cervical lesions are caused by human papillomavirus 16 and 18.
Another 25% are attributable to the five additional HPV types 31/33/45/52/58...
Female-to-female transmission probably caused an HIV infection in a Texas woman, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 46-year-old woman was in a monogamous...
COLLEGE PARK, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has unanimously supported expanding the approval of the cobas human papilloma virus test to include its use as a first-line primary...
An adnexal mass is a common gynecological presentation that can affect women of all ages. Typically, the mass is identified during an annual pelvic exam or incidentally when patients undergo pelvic...
Genomic abnormalities can be identified in individual patients with metastatic breast cancer, which can then lead to targeted therapy, investigators reported in the March issue of Lancet...
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...
The prevalence of bladder incontinence rose from 21.1% in 1992 to 30.2% in 2010 for Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older – an increase of 43%, according to data from the Medicare Current...
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...
