From the Editor
From the Editor
Permanent contraception provides a lesson in cost-effective medicine
Moving interval sterilization into the office, using the hysteroscope, appears to benefit patients and society—a good thing in 2010
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When is VBAC appropriate?
Vaginal birth after cesarean carries little risk for mother or infant—provided it is successful. Here’s what the literature says about when you...
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Does vaginal birth after cesarean have a future?
VBAC is destined to fade out of practice and memory unless we accurately, and individually, assess the risks it poses to patients and babies
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How did we arrive at a worldwide epidemic of vitamin D deficiency?
Our levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are distressingly low, putting pregnant women and newborns, among others, at risk
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Consensus panel proposes new diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes
To start, discard the 1-hour glucose loading test and the 3-hour OGTT, a global group says. Are you going to sign on, or remain an “...
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In women who have a pelvic mass: Have you tried this new ovarian Ca biomarker?
You should: It’s been 25 years since a test for ovarian cancer was introduced to assist us
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Give vasopressin to reduce bleeding in gynecologic surgery
5 units, in a very dilute solution, is plenty
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Stillbirth: Preventable tragedy or a lethal “act of nature”?
We’ve made great progress on reducing fetal loss, but more is needed because too many late stillbirths still occur
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Access to screening mammography: Priceless
One breast cancer death of a 40-year-old woman prevented by a mammogram spreads ripples of benefit beyond her life—to her family and across the...
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I’ve been rethinking my zeal for breast cancer screening
My plan is to be more acquiescent when a woman says “No” to an annual mammogram
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As uses widen for intrauterine contraception, why haven’t ObGyns become advocates?
Unintended pregnancies would likely decline if we prescribed these methods of birth control more often