Obstetrics
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Physicians react: Climate change and other social issues
Around half of physicians rated climate change among their five most important issues, according to results of a Medscape survey.
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New consensus on managing nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
Hyperemesis gravidarum is distinguished from nausea and vomiting during pregnancy by weight loss of ≥ 5%, signs of...
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Baby, that bill is high: Private equity ‘gambit’ squeezes excessive ER charges from routine births
Hospitals of every stripe have opened obstetrics emergency departments, at which patients with any pregnancy or postpartum medical concerns are...
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Nifedipine during labor controls BP in severe preeclampsia
Women with preeclampsia with severe features benefit from treatment with oral nifedipine during labor and delivery, results of a randomized...
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Eighty percent of U.S. maternal deaths are preventable: Study
“It’s significant. It’s staggering. It’s heartbreaking.”
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In the rush to curtail abortion, states adopt a jumbled stew of definitions for human life
That we’ve been able to devise and apply uniform clinical standards for when life ends, but not when it begins, is due largely to the legal and...
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Patients and doctors trapped in a gray zone when abortion laws and emergency care mandate conflict
Since the Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion in June, Dr. Puterbaugh said these cases put her and doctors like her in an...
Commentary
Legal abortion is a matter of public health
Each year, around 60,000 women worldwide die as a result of an unsafe voluntary termination of pregnancy. That’s one woman every 9 minutes.
From the Journals
COVID-19 infection late in pregnancy linked to sevenfold risk of preterm birth
The later in pregnancy COVID-19 infection occurs, the more likely preterm birth appears to be.
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Roe v. Wade: Medical groups react to Supreme Court decision
“The grievous inequities that exist in this country will grow and expand unchecked without safe access to legal abortion.”
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U.S. docs at double the risk of postpartum depression
The high postpartum depression rates among physicians might be associated with worse patient care, said Dr. Alison Stuebe.