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Pessaries in Patients with Short Cervices
The largest multicenter, randomized, controlled trial so far has found no significant benefit of pessaries to prevent preterm birth or to decrease neonatal morbidity in patients with short cervices.
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Early Initiation of Postmenopausal Estrogen Therapy
Women randomized to oral estradiol therapy showed less progression of subclinical atherosclerosis than those who received placebo.
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Accidental Bowel Leakage
Although there has been increased awareness of pelvic floor disorders in recent years, fecal incontinence, defined by the unintentional loss of solid or liquid stool, remains a silent epidemic.
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How Fetal Head Circumference Affects the Need for Cesarean Section
A recent study shows that infant head circumference has a greater effect on rates of cesarean section and instrumental delivery than birth weight.
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Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Helpful or Harmful?
Significant questions remain about whether screening actually saves lives.
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2016 USPSTF Update: Harms and Supplemental Screening
The decision to undergo screening mammography requires a consideration of benefits and harms. Harms include false-positive exams leading to unnecessary interventions, and true-positive exams that lead to overdiagnosis.
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Pelvic Floor Changes After Delivery
Significant changes in levator muscles are visible by transperineal ultrasound in early and late postpartum period.
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Who Seeks an Infertility Evaluation?
Demographic and lifestyle factors influence who receives a fertility evaluation.
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Zika Virus: Effects on the Fetus
While the Zika virus has been indolent in many South American, Central American, and Caribbean countries, its recent association with microcephaly (and neurologic impairment) has created an outburst of media alerts, response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and travel recommendations, particularly as the world moves closer to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
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By Using In Vitro Fertilization, Pregnancy Rates Can Approach Those in Fertile Women
Cumulative live-birth rates were more than 65% after the sixth cycle of in vitro fertilization.