Gynecology & Obstetrics (all articles)
Life after breast, prostate, and colon cancer: Primary care’s role
17 Apr, 2017 | 13:53h | UTC
Screening to Prevent Invasive Cervical Cancer Guideline
13 Apr, 2017 | 16:03h | UTCScreening to Prevent Invasive Cervical Cancer: ASCO Resource-Stratified Clinical Practice Guideline (free)
“The ASCO guidelines outline the minimum standards for HPV-based screening for each resource strata; additional and more frequent screening may be added as the resources become available”.
Pertussis shot in pregnant moms protects newborns
6 Apr, 2017 | 15:12h | UTCEffectiveness of Vaccination During Pregnancy to Prevent Infant Pertussis – Pediatrics (free)
See also: Study: Pertussis shot in pregnant moms protects newborns – CIDRAP (free)
Source: Global Health NOW Newsletter
One in 10 Pregnant Women With Zika in U.S. Have Babies With Birth Defects
5 Apr, 2017 | 21:46h | UTCOne in 10 Pregnant Women With Zika in U.S. Have Babies With Birth Defects – The New York Times (10 articles a month are free)
See also: 51 Babies Born With Zika-Related Birth Defects In The U.S. Last Year – NPR (free) AND Just released CDC report (free)
American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria Adds Topics
4 Apr, 2017 | 21:19h | UTCACR Appropriateness Criteria Adds Topics, Covers More Clinical Variants Than Ever Before (free)
Browse Appropriateness Criteria Topics (free)
Source: Newswise
This comprehensive guide from American College of Radiology (ACR) covers 230 topics with more than 1,100 clinical indications and has just been updated. It is a very useful resource for doctors in all specialties to guide which exam is most appropriate in each clinical situation.
Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Guideline
3 Apr, 2017 | 19:17h | UTCFunctional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline (free PDF)
Source: Endocrine Society Issues Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Guideline – Medscape (free registration required)
Exposure to antenatal corticosteroids and outcomes in preterm infants
31 Mar, 2017 | 19:00h | UTCEditorial: Antenatal corticosteroids for women at risk of preterm delivery (free)
See also: Antenatal Steroids Benefit Very Premature Infants Most – Medscape (free registration required)
“This study found that among infants born from 23 to 34 weeks’ gestation, antenatal exposure to corticosteroids compared with no exposure was associated with lower mortality and morbidity at most gestations”.
Management of Breech Presentation
28 Mar, 2017 | 16:47h | UTC
Surgeries are being performed with the patient awake
27 Mar, 2017 | 00:59h | UTCGoing Under the Knife, With Eyes and Ears Wide Open – New York Times (free access to 10 articles per month)
“More and more surgeries are being performed with the patient awake and looking on, for financial and medical reasons”.
Prenatal nutrition, socioenvironmental conditions, and child development
27 Mar, 2017 | 00:43h | UTCRelated commentary: Prenatal nutrition, socioenvironmental conditions, and child development (free)
“Maternal MMN had long-term benefits for child cognitive development at 9–12 years of age, thereby supporting its role in early childhood development, and policy change toward MMN”. The related commentary above does not seem to agree with this statement from the authors, stating that the new evidence does not provide enough weight for a policy change from prenatal iron and folate to MMN supplementation.