NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antenatal indomethacin given to prevent preterm labor is associated with a significantly increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants, investigators report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women treated for heavy menstrual bleeding, those undergoing endometrial ablation are less likely than those having a hysterectomy to need subsequent surgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnancy, antiepileptic drug (AED) polytherapy that includes valproate poses a higher risk of fetal malformations than therapy without this drug, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who are positive for human papilloma virus (HPV) and have low-grade cervical cytological abnormalities but normal colposcopic findings are at low risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hysteroscopy using narrow-band imaging (NBI) technology may be more sensitive than white-light imaging (WLI) for diagnosing endometrial cancer and hyperplasia, hint results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A couple of extra sutures makes a difference to the clinical efficacy of a mid-urethral sling procedure for treating female stress urinary incontinence,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Clinicians faced with a case of shoulder dystocia during childbirth should consider delivering the posterior shoulder after they’ve tried the two primary accepted…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For the treatment of ovarian endometriomas, laser vaporization is associated with earlier recurrences and more recurrences compared with laparoscopic cystectomy, although the differences…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Very small breast tumors that generate extensive lymph node involvement may be more biologically aggressive than larger tumors with the same degree of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis during vaginal or cesarean delivery is no longer generally recommended. That’s one of the advisories included in an updated…