Souka and colleagues have recently published a review that should be very helpful to the clinician confronted with the dilemma of counseling patients whose fetuses have increased nuchal translucencies (NTs) in the first trimester.
Erectile Dysfunction and Visual Disturbance; Mixed News on Statins; FDA Actions
A study that attracted some attention at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine meeting last year was recently published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. It dealt with the usefulness of fetal fibronectin (fFN) and cervical length (CL) in predicting which patients with preterm contractions (PTC) were truly in preterm labor (PTL).
Epidemiologists at the National Cancer Institute organized and conducted a retrospective cohort study, recruiting patients treated between 1965 and 1988 from endocrine and infertility practices in 5 academic centers.
Bevacizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting vascular endothelial growth factor and has documented single-agent activity in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer.
As a way to indirectly investigate the effects of lubricating products used by infertile women during intercourse on sperm quality, semen from 22 normospermic men was tested against several common lubricants (Pre-Seed®, Astroglide®, K-Y® Sensitive®, K-Y® Warming®, and K-Y® Tingling) and natural oils (baby, canola, sesame, and mustard) at 0, 5, 30 and 60 minutes.
A study that has focused on patients who are exposed to second-hand smoke shows a higher rate of preeclampsia than nonsmokers.
