Every birth a healthy birth
Progress in understanding and combating pneumonia, diarrhea, and other childhood illnesses has substantially reduced the percentage of children who die worldwide <5 years of age. But child mortality will remain…
GYNECOLOGY
Environmental exposures: how to counsel preconception and prenatal patients in the clinical setting
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that preconception and prenatal exposures can impact fetal development adversely and lead to potential long-lasting health effects. Reproductive health professionals have little training…
Fertility preservation in women of reproductive age with cancer
Advances in cancer care have improved survival, driving the need to mitigate the side effects of cancer therapy to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors. Use of fertility…
A systematic approach to the identification and classification of near-miss events on labor and delivery in a large, national health care system
We describe a systematic approach to the identification and classification of near-miss events on labor and delivery in a large, national health care system. Voluntary reports of near-miss events were…
Oxytocin use during active labor: too much of a good thing?
Patient injury from an adverse drug event is the most common type of inpatient adverse event, and oxytocin–being used in >50% of deliveries in the United States–is one of the…
The study design and compliance may affect strength of inferences
We wish to welcome the study by Upson et al on prognostic biomarkers of endometrial hyperplasia resistance when treated with oral progestins. We agree with the authors that the prognosis…
Infertility patients’ knowledge of the effects of obesity on reproductive health outcomes
Objective The objective of the study was to assess the infertility patient knowledge of reproductive outcomes affected by obesity. Study Design This was a prospective survey study of 150 female…
Three-tier versus five-tier fetal heart rate classification systems
We read with interest a recent article by Coletta and colleagues comparing the 3-tier system for fetal heart rate classification proposed by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child…
Adenocarcinoma of the lower female genital tract in patients with Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome
We report 2 patients with Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome, 1 with advanced endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the semiobstructed side of the uterine cervix and 1 with primary clear cell carcinoma of the obstructed…
