Concern over privacy in neonatal intensive care units
Researchers say that privacy is a problem for breastfeeding mothers of newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - January 21, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Bevacizumab QoL impact highlighted in ovarian cancer patients
The ICON7 study results suggest that improved progression-free survival with bevacizumab therapy for high-risk ovarian cancer may come at the cost of health-related quality of life. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - January 21, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Treating SDB improves fetal wellbeing in pre-eclamptic women
Researchers say that treatment of sleep-disordered breathing with continuous positive airway pressure therapy may improve fetal wellbeing in pregnant women with pre-eclampsia. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - January 18, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Sexual dysfunction not determined by hysterectomy technique
The prevalence of hypoactive sexual desire disorder after hysterectomy does not vary with the surgical technique used, researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - January 15, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Sequencing-based test effectively detects many fetal genetic defects
Researchers have developed a new screening test that allows detection of fetal abnormalities in maternal blood by deep sequencing cell-free DNA extracted from plasma. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - January 14, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
‘PapGene’ test detects endometrial and ovarian cancers
Researchers have adapted the papanicolaou smear test currently used to detect cervical cancer so that it can be used to screen women for endometrial and ovarian cancers. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - January 10, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Sexual revolution effect may be hiding true extent of HPV prevalence
Human papillomavirus infection in older women is commonly due to reactivation of latent disease rather than new infection, research indicates. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - January 2, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Global infertility unchanged
The global rate of infertility has not significantly changed over the past 2 decades, with the exception of regions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - January 2, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
