News tagged with obstetricians
Preemie birth preventive spikes from $10 to $1,500
(AP) -- The price of preventing preterm labor is about to go through the roof.
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Medicine's secret archives: How patients are harmed by the concealment of knowledge
No one knows how many mothers' and babies' lives have been saved by the obstetrical forceps. This device has been part of the standard equipment of every maternity room for about 250 years. However, a shadow lies over the ...
May 25, 2010 |
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Study suggests obese women should not gain weight
For years, doctors and other health-care providers have managed pregnant patients according to guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In 1986, ACOG stated, "Regardless of how ...
May 29, 2009 |
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Obese pregnant women should gain less weight than currently recommended
Recent recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) call for women who are overweight or obese to gain more weight than they should, a Saint Louis University obstetrician wrote in a January commentary for Obstetrics & ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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When women deny their own pregnancies
Whether the French woman who killed eight of her newborns suffered from a syndrome known as pregnancy denial may determine if she faces major prison time or intensive psychiatric care.
Aug 01, 2010 |
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Obstetrics
Obstetrics (from the Latin obstare, "to stand by") is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy (prenatal period), childbirth and the postnatal period. Veterinary obstetrics is the same concept for veterinary medicine although theriogenology is more commonly used term that includes obstetrics, gynecology, and andrology. Almost all modern obstetricians are also gynaecologists.
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