Journal Watch Women's Health

Postcesarean Intrauterine Contraception Is it safe to insert an IUD immediately following cesarean delivery?
Journal Article, October 19, 2012
Cumulative Live-Birth Rates Offer Hope to Infertile Couples Assistive reproductive technology has improved immensely. How successful is this approach for infertile couples?
Journal Article, August 31, 2012
Pregnancy Complications as an Omen for Cardiovascular Disease Are women who deliver small-for-gestational-age babies more likely to experience ischemic heart disease in later life?
Journal Article, June 07, 2012
Medical Management of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids This study assessed the efficacy of oral ulipristal acetate, a selective progesterone-receptor modulator, as a pre-surgical treatment for uterine fibroids.
Journal Article, April 12, 2012
Can Ovarian Cancer Screening Save Lives? This study showed that vaginal ultrasound screening can lower ovarian cancer mortality--but the positive predictive value is still too low to recommend it as a routine practice.
Journal Article, February 08, 2012
HPV Vaccination: Three Doses Might Not Be Necessary A three-dose schedule is currently recommended for both of the available HPV vaccines--but are all three really necessary for adequate protection?
Journal Article, December 07, 2011
Sorting Out the Value of Mammography Yet another study makes a credible argument that screening mammography plays a limited role in lowering breast cancer mortality.
Journal Article, October 06, 2011
Ovarian Cancer Screening: No Advantage In this discouraging report, current methods of screening for ovarian cancer were shown to be ineffective, and potentially do more harm than good.
Journal Article, August 11, 2011
Lengthened WHI Follow-Up: Postmenopausal Estrogen Therapy New findings from the Women's Health Initiative shows estrogen therapy has no substantial adverse effects on most health outcomes. Should recommendations be changed?
Journal Article, June 09, 2011
Planned Home Birth: A New View A new recommendation by the ACOG acknowledges that women have the right to make informed choices about home birth after thorough counseling about risks and benefits.
Journal Article, April 07, 2011
Lowering Rates of Elective Early-Term Deliveries How can we effectively curb the growing trend of elective early-term delivery? Education alone is not sufficient.
Journal Article, February 09, 2011
How Does Estrogen-Progestin Hormone Therapy Affect Breast Cancer Mortality? A new report from the Women's Health Initiative shows that not only does the use of combination HT increase the incidence of breast cancer, but it increases death from breast cancer as well.
Journal Article, December 15, 2010
Mammography Revisited: Does Screening Lower Breast Cancer-Related Mortality? According to a Norwegian study, screening mammography may not lower mortality by as much as previously thought.
Journal Article, November 08, 2010
Vaginal Birth After Previous Cesarean Delivery: Updated Guidelines New guidelines give more specific recommendations for managing pregnant patients who have experienced previous cesarean delivery.
Journal Article, October 06, 2010
Quick Herpes Test for Women in Labor Helps Prevent Transmission to Newborns A new rapid test for HSV infection could avert needless cesarean deliveries.
Journal Article, August 12, 2010
NAMS 2010 Position Statement on Postmenopausal Hormone Use New evidence as well as recent analyses of benefit-risk ratios shape NAMS revisions to its recommendations on menopausal hormone therapy.
Journal Article, June 24, 2010
Risk for Venous Thromboembolism Lingers Long After Surgery Surgery confers risk for subsequent venous thromboembolism but how long after surgery does the risk persist? This study provides some clues.
Journal Article, February 05, 2010
Mastectomy Instead of BCS: What Is the Role of the Surgeon's Recommendation? Mastectomy or breast-conserving surgery? Are surgeons making appropriate treatment recommendations?
Journal Article, November 24, 2009
The Other Shoe Drops: New WHI Analysis Hormone replacement therapy: new data, new worries from the Women's Health Initiative. Read on.
Journal Article, October 20, 2009
Estrogen-Progestin Therapy and Risk for Breast Cancer: More Findings From the WHI What are the trends in breast cancer diagnoses in relation to use and discontinuation of estrogen-progestin combination hormone therapy based on postintervention Women's Health Initiative data?
Journal Article, February 04, 2009

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