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OB/GYN General

Prescribed Medical Cannabis in Women With Gynecologic Malignancies

Dec 14, 2020

Although cannabis remains illegal in many parts of the United States, 33 states have approved medical cannabis programs as of March 2020. “With the likely expansion of medical cannabis across the US...

Waves of Postpartum Depression Can Ebb and Flow for Years

Nov 03, 2020

Experts advise pediatricians to be alert for signs of depressive symptomatology Postpartum depression is not simply something that happens shortly after birth and then goes away — a new, longit...

Survival After Minimally Invasive vs Open Radical Hysterectomy for Early-Stage Cervical Cancer

Oct 13, 2020

Previous research has shown that women with early-stage cervical cancer who undergo radical hysterectomy are usually cured, with some reports demonstrating 5-year disease-free survival rates that exce...

Covid-19: Low Risk for Moms to Pass Virus to Newborns

Oct 13, 2020

No detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in more than 100 infants There was no clinical evidence of vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from mothers to newborns, researchers reported. In 101 infants b...

Black Women Turn to Midwives to Avoid COVID and ‘Feel Cared For’

Sep 18, 2020

From the moment she learned she was pregnant late last year, TaNefer Camara knew she didn’t want to have her baby in a hospital bed. Already a mother of three and a part-time lactation consultant...

A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to the Treatment of Primary Dysmenorrhea

Sep 07, 2020

For a paper published in Pain Medicine, my colleagues and I developed a mind-body intervention, based on principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), for young women with moderate-to-severe prima...

Comparing Treatments for Early-Stage Endometrial Cancer With Lymphovascular Space Invasion

Aug 14, 2020

Research indicates that women with early-stage endometrial cancer who have lymphovascular space invasion on their hysterectomy specimen have more aggressive tumors that are more likely to spread to th...

Preterm Birth and Arrested Cardiac Growth in Adolescents and Young Adults

Aug 11, 2020

Preterm birth is strongly associated with a higher risk of arrested cardiac growth, leading to cardiovascular events like stroke, heart failure, and ischemia. This study aims to evaluate the cardiac f...

Maternal smoking during pregnancy and fractures in offspring

Aug 07, 2020

Maternal smoking during pregnancy is linked to fetal growth restriction and lower birth weight. This study evaluates the impact of maternal smoking on fractures in offspring during different stages of...

Assessing the Prediagnostic Experiences of Black Women With Endometrial Cancer

Jul 29, 2020

Published research has shown that racial disparities in endometrial cancer have increased over the past decade, with black women having a 90% higher 5-year mortality risk when compared with white wome...

Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia & Cancer Risk

Jun 26, 2020

Prior research indicates that women who are treated for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) remain at increased risk of developing cervical cancer when compared with women with normal cytology re...

Cranberries after pelvic floor surgery for urinary tract infection prophylaxis: A randomized controlled trial.

May 26, 2020

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common complication after pelvic floor surgery. Antibiotics as prophylaxis may reduce the prevalence of UTI's by 50%, but bacterial resistance may be a large disadva...

Intraurethral catheter placement does not change the external circumferential measurement of the urethra during AUS placement: A prospective observational trial.

May 26, 2020

Measuring the urethral circumference accurately during artificial urethral sphincter (AUS) placement is an important technical aspect to optimize the selection of cuff size. Differing methods exist f...

Minimally invasive open pyeloplasty in children: Long-term follow-up.

May 26, 2020

Our aim was to report the long-term follow-up for minimally invasive open pyeloplasty in children.A total of 213 children with a mean age 16.33 months underwent miniature open pyeloplasty for ureterop...

Peritoneal Flap in Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

May 26, 2020

Lymphocele is the most common complication arising after pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) in the setting of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). The only data available until now on the uti...

National Analysis of Perioperative Morbidity of Vaginal Versus Laparoscopic Hysterectomy at the Time of Uterosacral Ligament Suspension.

May 26, 2020

The objective of this study was to compare the morbidity of vaginal versus laparoscopic hysterectomy when performed with uterosacral ligament suspension (USLS).Retrospective propensity-matched cohort ...

Microglia influence host defense, disease, and repair following murine coronavirus infection of the central nervous system.

May 26, 2020

The present study examines functional contributions of microglia in host defense, demyelination, and remyelination following infection of susceptible mice with a neurotropic coronavirus. Treatment wit...

Cost minimization analysis and validation of a cytomegalovirus quantitative in-house real time PCR assay in relation to m2000 RealTime System.

May 26, 2020

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) causes severe diseases in the immunocompromised patients. Nowadays, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is the gold-standard for diagnosis and monitoring of CMV infecti...

Treatment with Foscarnet after Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplant (AlloHCT) is Associated with Long-Term Loss of Renal Function.

May 26, 2020

Despite a well-established risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (AlloHCT), the benefits of using nephrotoxic anti-infective agents to treat serious peri-...

Omega-3 derivatives, specialized pro-resolving mediators: Promising therapeutic tools for the treatment of pain in chronic liver disease.

May 26, 2020

The main causes of liver injury are associated with inflammation and permanent damage. They can cause chronic liver disease (CLD), which is mainly related to viral hepatitis, alcohol consumption and n...

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