Objective The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between induced abortion training and views toward, and use of, office uterine evacuation and misoprostol in early pregnancy failure…
Approximately half of HIV-discordant heterosexual couples in the United States want children. Oral antiretroviral preexposure prophylaxis, if effective in reducing heterosexual HIV transmission, might be an option for discordant couples…
The Pedersen hypothesis was formulated more than 50 years ago. Jorgen Pedersen primarily cared for women with type 1 diabetes. He suggested that fetal overgrowth was related to increased transplacental…
Although gynecologic cancers account for only 10% of all new cancer cases in women, these cancers account for 20% of all female cancer survivors. Improvements in cancer care have resulted…
THE ISSUE: Defined as delivery at 34 0/7 -36 6/7 weeks, late preterm births have increased by 15% between 1992 and 2002 and currently they occur in about 8% of…
Ultrasonography is commonly utilized in obstetric practice to estimate fetal weight at term. The seminal paper by Lubchenco et al introduced into the field of obstetrics what is commonly referred…
As an obstetrician, present at the dawn of intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring (EFM), I had every expectation that EFM would improve perinatal outcomes and that these effects would be validated…
We read with great interest the article by Brandt et al on the 100 most frequently cited papers in obstetrics and gynecology journals during the last 50 years. Surprisingly, only…
The October 2010 article, Recommendations for intrauterine contraception: a randomized trial of the effects of patients’ race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) gives great insight to potential provider biases with respect…
We have read with interest the review by Vaknin et al of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the transcervical balloon catheter with vaginal prostaglandins in your November issue. Since the…
