OB/GYN News

View more issues:

Articles in Dec 15, 2003 issue of OB/GYN News

• Medicare reform includes 2-year fee schedule fix: permanent solution still needed: prescription drug benefit to launch in 2006
  by Jennifer Silverman
• Prolapse repair moves toward tissue replacement: synthetic and xenogenic products
  by Sherry Boschert
• Implant doubts
  by Mary Ellen Schneider
• Stress treatment essential to improved management of asthma and allergy: encourage positive outlook
  by Kerri Wachter
• Should physicians get paid for quality improvement?
  by Gail M. Amundson
• Deliveries unaffected by nighttime call status: in or out of hospital
  by Damian McNamara
• Cancer risk jumps after first episode of VTE: within the next 3 months
  by Bruce Jancin
• First human pregnancy from nuclear transfer: lasted until 29 weeks' gestation
  by Kate Johnson
• Antiretrovirals up gestational diabetes risk: small study
  by Damian McNamara
• CDC predicts severe influenza season: call for increased vaccination
  by Michele G. Sullivan
• Folic acid slashes risk of congenital heart defects: reduction of 54%
  by Bruce Jancin
• U.S. live births after ART in 2000
• Mifeprex legislation
  by Mary Ellen Schneider
• Sweat of infected patients may contain hepatitis C: inapparent parenteral transmission
  by Bruce Jancin
• Will you be getting the flue shot this season?
• Vaginal delivery a risk factor for candidemia: supports vertical tranmission theory
  by Doug Brunk
• Avoid blame when addressing patient complaints: exercise truth and transparency
  by Jennifer Silverman
• FDA approves chewable oral contraceptive: spearmint flavored
  by Elizabeth Mechcatie
• Attitudes on hormone therapy vary by specialty: internists most leery
  by Michele G. Sullivan
• Bombing plot arrest
  by Mary Ellen Schneider
• Few at high risk get hepatitis B vaccine: 31% of women
  by Kerri Wachter
• What we've lost to frivolous lawsuits
  by Elizabeth B. Connell
• Careful monitoring called key to tocolysis: pulmonary status, vital signs
  by Nancy Walsh
• Burnout prevention requires setting new priorities: symptoms of overload
  by Joyce Frieden
• Prenatal screening halves CF births: data from large screening program
  by Betsy Bates
• High-dose tamoxifen for IVF in breast cancer survivors: combine with FSH
  by Kate Johnson
• Pregnancy outcomes in the United States, 1999
• Web clipping: AvantGo
  by Thomas G. McLeod
• Counterfeit surgical mesh reaches the U.S. market: how to spot the sham version
  by Elizabeth Mechcatie
• Improved endometriosis pain tied to vitamins: small study of short-term use
  by Kate Johnson
• HIV report
  by Mary Ellen Schneider
• Pelvic pain
  by Bruce L. Flamm
• Women driving increase in medical school applications: 51% of applicants
  by Jennifer Silverman
• Justification and education lower episiotomy rates: clinical intervention
  by Damian McNamara
• Embryo donation center
  by Mary Ellen Schneider