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Therapeutic hypothermia for newborns who suffer hypoxic–ischemic birth injury
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- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
Can whole-body cooling reduce the rate of cerebral palsy and thus help OBs limit their professional liability?
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A new (to the US) first-line agent for heavy menstrual bleeding
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
Tranexamic acid has a track record of efficacy and safety in Europe. Consider it an addition to your therapeutic options.
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In the news, now on the shelf: A novel estradiol-based OC
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
The first birth control pill was sold in the United States in 1960. Fifty years later, oral contraceptives continue to evolve—as Natazia...
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Permanent contraception provides a lesson in cost-effective medicine
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- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
Moving interval sterilization into the office, using the hysteroscope, appears to benefit patients and society—a good thing in 2010
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How did we arrive at a worldwide epidemic of vitamin D deficiency?
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- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
Our levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are distressingly low, putting pregnant women and newborns, among others, at risk
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State of the Specialty: 12 ObGyns describe critical challenges to their work
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
- Members Of The Obg Management Board Of Editors
- Virtu
It’s no quiet time in the specialty. More and more chronically ill patients, falling reimbursement, a struggling economy, rapid evolution of...
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Consensus panel proposes new diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes
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- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
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?
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
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
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
5 units, in a very dilute solution, is plenty
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Stillbirth: Preventable tragedy or a lethal “act of nature”?
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
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
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- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
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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As uses widen for intrauterine contraception, why haven’t ObGyns become advocates?
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
Unintended pregnancies would likely decline if we prescribed these methods of birth control more often
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The HPV vaccine is effective and safe, and it is vital
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
I say so because the experts have said so—emphatically and on solid scientific footing
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7,300+ days of remarkable change in your profession and your practice
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
That’s what OBG Management has been tracking across 20 years of publication
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Planning reduces the risk of maternal death. This tool helps.
- Author:
- Robert L. Barbieri, MD
Developing—and practicing—standardized clinical responses to massive obstetric hemorrhage reduce the risk of this major cause of maternal death