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Should you adopt the practice of vaginal cleansing with povidone-iodine prior to cesarean delivery?
Among women with ruptured membranes or spontaneous labor, precesarean vaginal cleansing with povidone-iodine may reduce the risk of endometritis...
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Should newborns at 22 or 23 weeks’ gestational age be aggressively resuscitated?
At 22 weeks 0 days of gestation, pediatricians and parents should be cautious about choosing to aggressively resuscitate a newborn because...
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Can we reduce the use of abdominal hysterectomy and increase the use of vaginal and laparoscopic approaches?
Too many hysterectomies are performed using a laparotomy incision. Increasing the use of vaginal and laparoscopic hysterectomy will improve...
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Does hormone therapy reduce mortality in recently menopausal women?
Yes. For postmenopausal women aged 50 to 59 years, hormone therapy reduces the risk of death.
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Reducing maternal mortality in the United States—Let’s get organized!
With teamwork, we can impact women and their families on a national scale
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Why is breast density a weighty matter?
What will you tell your patient who asks about the clinical significance of dense breasts detected on her mammogram? Here I offer my current...
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Advances in protection against oncogenic human papillomaviruses: The 9-valent vaccine
Can the HPV vaccine help prevent oropharyngeal cancer—a disease that is predicted to become more common than cervical cancer in 5 years?
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Why is obstetrics and gynecology a popular career choice for medical students?
About 7% of 2014 graduating medical students did not get matched to a residency program for their first-choice ObGyn specialty
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Uterus transplantation: Medical breakthrough or surgical folly?
Although uterus transplantation has been proven to be feasible, is it practical or ethical?
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What is the risk that a patient will have an occult uterine cancer at myomectomy?
Stratified by age, a patient’s risk of an occult uterine cancer at myomectomy is 1 in 2,337 if she is younger than 40 years, 1 in 702 if she is 40...
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Hysterotomy incision and repair: Many options, many personal preferences
Is there evidence of a best approach to managing the hysterotomy incision?
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Optimal pharmacologic treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy
Is ondansetron associated with congenital anomalies when used in early pregnancy?
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Dr. Robert L. Barbieri's Editors Picks for January 2015
Dr. Ronald Burkman and Dr. Robert Barbieri discuss topics from the January 2015 issue, including 2015 income changers for ObGyns and conversion to...
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Stop using the hCG discriminatory zone of 1,500 to 2,000 mIU/mL to guide intervention during early pregnancy
If your patient reports pain and bleeding, start basing your diagnosis on history, physical exam, pelvic ultrasonography, and serial hCG...
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Nitrous oxide for labor pain
Should your birthing unit make nitrous oxide available for your laboring patients?