http://medicineworld.org/news/obgyn-news.html MedicineWorld.Org brings daily OBGYN news news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld OBGYN news news service is the most comprehensive OBGYN news news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/uterus-and-ovaries.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/obgyn-news.html 100 75 http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/women-who-breastfeed-for-more-than-a-year.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/women-who-breastfeed-for-more-than-a-year.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Women who breast feed for longer have a smaller chance of getting rheumatoid arthritis, suggests a study published online ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. The study also observed that taking oral contraceptives, which are suspected to protect against the disease because they contain hormones that are raised in pregnancy, did not have the same effect. Also, simply having children and not breast feeding also did not seem to be protective........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/how-slow-growth-as-a-fetus.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/how-slow-growth-as-a-fetus.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), which results in a baby having a low weight at birth, has been associated with the development of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. It has been suggested that this is because the expression of key genes is altered during fetal development and that this affects disease susceptibility during the later part of life. Evidence to support this hypothesis and indicating that the changes in gene expression might be permanent has now been provided by Rebecca Simmons and his colleagues, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, using a rat model of IUGR........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/breastfeeding-childrens-intelligence-scores.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/breastfeeding-childrens-intelligence-scores.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Long-term, exclusive breastfeeding appears to improve childrens cognitive development, as per a report in the recent issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Prior studies have reported that children and adults who were breastfed as infants have higher scores on IQ tests and other measures of cognitive (thinking, learning and memory) development than those who were fed formula, as per background information in the article. However, the evidence has been based on findings based on observation, in which children whose mothers chose to breastfeed were compared with those whose mothers chose not to breastfeed. The results of these studies may be complicated by subtle differences in the way breastfeeding mothers interact with their infants, the authors note........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/treatment-advances-for-fibroids.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/treatment-advances-for-fibroids.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Women with fibroids and endometriosis facing the possibility of hysterectomy may now choose less invasive therapy options to preserve fertility, as per Yale professor Aydin Arici, M.D., who will direct a scientific session exploring these alternatives at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Clinical Meeting May 3-7 in New Orleans, Louisiana........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/childbirth-training-change-improves-safety.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/childbirth-training-change-improves-safety.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Relatively inexpensive interventions were effective in helping health care providers in Latin America improve the way they treat mothers during labor and delivery, reducing bleeding and sometimes saving lives of women during childbirth, as per a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health study released recently in the New England Journal (NEJM)........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/pregnancy-is-possible-after-cancer-treatment.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/pregnancy-is-possible-after-cancer-treatment.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT It has been reported for the first time in Gera number of that healthy ovarian tissue has been taken from a non-pregnant woman with cancer and then re-implanted after cancer treatment. The patient is now 32 years old and could become pregnant as a result. This case is described by Ralf Dittrich and colleagues from Erlangen University Hospital in the current issue of Deutsches rzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[15]: 274-8)........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/omega-3-intake-during-last-months-of-pregnancy.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/omega-3-intake-during-last-months-of-pregnancy.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT A study supervised by Universit Laval scientists Gina Muckle and ric Dewailly reveals that omega-3 intake during the last months of pregnancy boosts an infants sensory, cognitive, and motor development. The details of this finding are published in a recent edition of the Journal of Pediatrics. To come to this conclusion, scientists first measured docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) concentrationa type of omega-3 fatty acid involved in the development of neurons and retinasin the umbilical cord blood of 109 infants. DHA concentration in the umbilical cord is a good indicator of intra-uterine exposure to omega-3s during the last trimester of pregnancy, a crucial period for the development of retinal photoreceptors and neurons, explains Dr. Dewailly........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/your-babys-brain-on-drugs.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/your-babys-brain-on-drugs.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Eventhough behavioral studies clearly indicate that exposure to drugs, alcohol and tobacco in utero is bad for a baby's developing brain, specific anatomic brain effects have been hard to tease out in humans. Often users don't limit themselves to one substance, and demographic factors like poverty can also influence brain development........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/continuous-oral-contraceptives-better.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2008/continuous-oral-contraceptives-better.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Continuous oral contraceptives may be more effective than the standard 28-day birth control pills in suppressing the ovary, as per researchers. They say that the continuous pill also causes a significant improvement in pain and behavioral changes. "We have provided a biological proof of concept that both the ovary and the lining of the uterus are suppressed better and quicker with the continuous pill than with the cyclic pill. And there is no harmful effect on the lining of the uterus either," said Richard Legro, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Penn State College of Medicine and lead author of the study........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2008/being-born-bottom-first-is-inherited.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2008/being-born-bottom-first-is-inherited.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT A baby is twice as likely to be born bottom first if either or both the parents were themselves breech deliveries, as per a research studypublished ahead of print on bmj.com. The results suggest genes are a contributing factor. The vast majority of babies are delivered head first. Fewer than one in twenty are delivered the other way round what is known as a breech delivery. Such deliveries carry significantly greater risks for the baby: they are more likely to die or suffer from health problems........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2008/the-surprising-power-of-the-pill.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2008/the-surprising-power-of-the-pill.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Women who have tried to conceive using in vitro fertilization (IVF) methods are painfully aware that timing is of the essence. There are cancelled vacations, too a number of sick days taken from work, and the necessity to plan everything around the therapy. But thanks to a Tel Aviv University study, trying for a baby has just been made easier. In a surprising finding, scientists have discovered that the same pill used to prevent pregnancy can actually help a woman conceive........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2008/revise-guidelines-for-weight-gain-during-pregnancy.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2008/revise-guidelines-for-weight-gain-during-pregnancy.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT Current recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy developed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1990 should be revised, as per an internationally recognized obesity expert and chairman of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and womens health at Saint Louis University. The editorial by Raul Artal, M.D., who has conducted extensive research on obesity during pregnancy, appears in the recent issue of Expert Review of Obstetrics and Gynecology, an international medical journal........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2008/after-cessation-of-postmenopausal-hormone-therapy.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2008/after-cessation-of-postmenopausal-hormone-therapy.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT The Womens Health Initiative (WHI) scientists have produced another article [1], which probably marks the opening of another set of publications, in which the consequences of a further 2.4-year follow-up (after cessation of the study medication) on the estrogen + progestogen (E + P) cohort are reported. They concluded that, by the end of the post-intervention period, the global index, a newly formed and unvalidated tool used in the WHI trial, was still higher in women randomly assigned to receive E + P compared with placebo........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2008/mothers-antibody-production-may-affect-fetal-brain.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2008/mothers-antibody-production-may-affect-fetal-brain.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT The mothers of some autistic children may have made antibodies against their fetuses brain tissue during pregnancy that crossed the placenta and caused changes that led to autism, suggests research led by Johns Hopkins Childrens Center researchers and reported in the recent issue of the Journal of Neuroimmunology........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2008/women-prefer-contraceptive-ring-over-patch.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2008/women-prefer-contraceptive-ring-over-patch.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:29 GMT In the first study to directly compare a contraceptive vaginal ring and skin patch, more women indicated overall satisfaction with the vaginal ring, scientists report in the current issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a publication of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Using the same combination of hormones included in prescription birth control pills, these products became available in 2002 as an alternative to taking a pill every day. Ring and patch are left in place for three weeks at a time........ ]]>