Medical errors and the law
Question: A patient was admitted with heart failure, developed deep vein thrombosis, and was started on warfarin and Lovenox as “bridge” therapy. On day 4, the patient achieved anticoagulation... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 7, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Apologizing for medical errors
Question: A patient was admitted with heart failure, developed deep vein thrombosis, and was started on warfarin and Lovenox as “bridge” therapy. On day 4, the patient achieved anticoagulation... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 7, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
I-SPY 2 graduates two neoadjuvant treatments to phase III trials
Taking a step toward the goal of personalized medicine, investigators in the multicenter, adaptive I-SPY 2 trial report that tailoring neoadjuvant therapy combinations to specific cancer subtypes in... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 6, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Zika study to focus on U.S. Olympic athletes
Zika virus exposure will be monitored by researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health during the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Rio De Janeiro.
The study, funded by NIH’s... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 6, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Cochrane review: Endometrial scratching may promote implantation
HELSINKI, FINLAND – Scratching the endometrium to create a “favorable inflammation” may improve the likelihood of embryo implantation in subfertile women trying to conceive either naturally or by... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 6, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
VIDEO: Expert roundtable explores 50 years of contraception
WASHINGTON – What has the increased access to contraception over the last 50 years meant for American women?
We asked Ob.Gyn. News editorial advisory board member Dr. Eve Espey, professor and chair... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 6, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
mtDNA level predicts IVF embryo viability
HELSINKI – Mitochondrial DNA level appears to be a useful biomarker for in vitro fertilization embryo viability, according to findings from a blinded prospective non-selection study.
An analysis of... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 5, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
When opioids mix with pregnancy, what’s best?
Hand-wringing stories about the opioid epidemic are flooding the popular press – and physicians are seeing the headlines reflected in their practices.
As clinics fill with more and more pregnant... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 5, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Supreme Court will not hear pharmacy religious liberty case
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to decide whether pharmacists with strongly held religious beliefs can be forced to dispense emergency contraception to patients.
Justices did not explain their... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 1, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Multisite NIH-sponsored research can now use single IRB
In an effort to streamline multisite clinical research, the National Institutes of Health announced a new policy related to the use of institutional review boards (IRBs).
<table... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 1, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Recognizing granulosa cell ovarian tumors
Granulosa cell tumors arise from ovarian sex cords and make up an estimated 1% of all ovarian cancer cases but comprise more than 70% of all sex cord stromal tumors.
Granulosa cell tumors (GCTs) can... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - July 1, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Women with BRCA1 mutations at higher risk for endometrial cancers
Women with BRCA1 mutations who undergo risk-reducing ovary and fallopian tube removal without concomitant hysterectomy appear to be at increased risk for serous or serous-like endometrial carcinoma,... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - June 30, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Rash, microcephaly not always present with congenital Zika syndrome
The largest study so far of congenital Zika virus syndrome suggests that microcephaly and maternal rash are not sufficient to detect affected babies.
Writing in the June 29 online edition of The... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - June 29, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Zika vaccine development to get underway
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has announced that they will provide up to $21.9 million to help develop a... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - June 28, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Menopause and cardiovascular risk examined in type 1 diabetes
NEW ORLEANS – Premenopausal women with type 1 diabetes mellitus have a higher cardiovascular risk, compared with their diabetes-free counterparts. Among postmenopausal women, however, those with type... (Source: Ob.Gyn. News)
Source: Ob.Gyn. News - June 28, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
