Uterine polyps and leiomyomata are common in premenopausal women, and small polyps frequently will regress spontaneously.
The alternative therapies most commonly used for relief of menopause symptoms are herbal and homeopathic remedies, stress management, and dietary soy.
A ten-city case-control study of 821 women found the risk of femicide increased three-fold for women abused during pregnancy.
Adverse childhood experiences were associated with an increased risk of paternity in teen pregnancy in a large health maintenance organization population.
The Friedman active phase of labor was 1 hour longer when epidural analgesia was used.
Sensitivity of Liley's zone 3 and the upper third of zone 2 for severe fetal anemia is clinically useful both before and after 27 weeks' gestation.
The preoperative CA 125 level is an independent prognostic factor for death due to disease in ovarian cancer patients.
Emergency contraception with mifepristone and levonorgestrel acts mainly by inhibition of ovulation rather than inhibition of implantation.
A low-intensity behavioral therapy program of bladder training significantly reduced urinary incontinent episodes for older women.
After the 1990 change in Medicare funding statutes for screening cervical cytology, cervical cancer incidence decreased more in Medicare-eligible patients than in younger women.
The threat of terrorists to use smallpox mandates health care providers to learn to prevent, diagnose, and manage this eradicated disease, given its potential catastrophic consequences.
Hospitalization during pregnancy is a common event.
Prenatal prescriptions for erythromycin were not associated with pyloric stenosis; an unanticipated association was found between prenatal nonerythromycin macrolides and pyloric stenosis.
Suboptimal prepregnancy folate and vitamin B6 status may be associated with increased risk of clinical spontaneous abortion in young Chinese women.
Clavicular fracture is unrelated to neonatal complications such as Erb palsy after adjusting for confounding factors that included birth weight, shoulder dystocia, and instrumental delivery.
Echogenic bowel in intrauterine growth restriction fetuses with high resistance in the umbilical artery is not associated with increased risk for neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
Histopathologic examination of the placenta is a valuable adjunct to the criteria used to diagnose congenital syphilis.
In pregnancies with hydramnios and normal targeted sonography, likelihood of a neonatal anomaly was 1% with mild, 2% with moderate, and 11% with severe hydramnios.
Maternal inhibin-A serum levels rise with increasing severity of hypertensive disorders due to pregnancy.
Although leiomyomata are a common cause of morbidity, limitations of the available literature on management options prevents drawing valid conclusions about optimal management.
The review highlights diagnosis and management of common and problematic vulvar conditions.
A national doubling of the labor induction rates during the past decade is attributable to many reasons that are often not evidence based.
Preserving the public perception of medicine as a moral enterprise is critical to defeating current trends that threaten to transform medical services into another marketplace commodity.
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