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Tanzania: Tanzania Talk Radio - Teens, Teachers and Transactional Sex
[RNW Africa]It's a Friday afternoon at the studio of Radio Kwizera FM in the rural district of Kasulu, Tanzania. Sixteen year olds Letsia and Ringaniza put on their headphones as they get ready for their weekly show. The top story of the day: teenage schoolgirls who get impregnated by teachers.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 5, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Ghana: Ghana Makes Inroads in Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Cape Coast -Ghana is making inroads in managing the spread of HIV through the Mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women as more pregnant women are willing to test and know their status to prevent mother-to-child transmission.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 5, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Liberia: PUL Trains Journalists On Maternal Health Reporting
[Informer]With the support of the United Nations Population Fund [UNPFA], the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) yesterday, December 3rd, kicked off a 2-day health workshop for journalists in the country at the Market Place on Carey Street.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 5, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Kate And William Expecting First Baby
WebMD Medical News
By Tim Locke
Reviewed by Rob Hicks, MD
Dec. 3, 2012 — Prince William and Catherine Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their first baby.
The announcement from St. James’s Palace was made earlier than normal because Catherine is in the hospital with an acute form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum.
She is not believed to be past the first 12 weeks of pregnancy yet.
St. James’s Palace says the couple found out about the pregnancy “recently” and that members of both families “are delighted with the news.”
Acute Morning ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - December 4, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mreal197 Tags: WebMD News Source Type: news
Liberia: 'Help Reduce Maternal Deaths'
[NEWS]The Country Director of Curamericas Global Liberia, Madam Woseh Gobeh has urged health institutions operating in the country to create a roadmap for the reduction of maternal deaths.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 4, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Teen Girls Who Smoke May Up Risk for Future Bone Disease
Title: Teen Girls Who Smoke May Up Risk for Future Bone DiseaseCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/4/2012 10:35:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 12/4/2012 12:00:00 AM
Source: MedicineNet Womens Health General - December 4, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Websites offering 'designer vaginas' lack information
Websites for providers offering female genital cosmetic surgery contain poor quality and limited clinical information regarding procedures and risks, show study results.
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Intervention helps postmenopausal women relax
Applied relaxation techniques could help postmenopausal women significantly reduce the number of hot flashes they experience each day, research suggests.
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
An Expert Discusses Breast Density Notification LawsAn Expert Discusses Breast Density Notification Laws
Patient advocates say breast density notification laws are needed, but can legislation deal with the nuances of the relationships among breast density, screening, and cancer? Medscape Radiology
Source: Medscape ObGyn and Womens Health Headlines - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Tags: Radiology Expert Interview Source Type: news
Oral Contraceptives May Increase VTE Risk in Women With PCOSOral Contraceptives May Increase VTE Risk in Women With PCOS
Estrogen-progestin contraceptives confer 'significantly higher' absolute risk among women with PCOS, according to a new study. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape ObGyn and Womens Health Headlines - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
Most Patients Won't See an NP Instead of Doc to Save MoneyMost Patients Won't See an NP Instead of Doc to Save Money
Although worried about affordability, most patients also are unwilling to switch primary care physicians to lower costs, according to results from a study from the management consulting firm Accenture. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape ObGyn and Womens Health Headlines - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Ghana: Illegal Abortions Soar in B.A
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Yamfo -Parents have been called upon to draw closer to their girl-children and monitor their movements in order that the teenage girls especially, would not be influenced by ill advice from their peers to indulge in illegal abortion.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
35th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)35th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)
Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from SABCS 2012. Medscape Hematology-Oncology
Source: Medscape ObGyn and Womens Health Headlines - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Tags: Conference Coverage Source Type: news
Kenya: Western Province Targeted for Maternal and Newborn Project
[The Star]The Public Health Ministry is this morning launching a project to reduce maternal and newborn deaths in three districts in Western Province. The community-based nutrition project aims to create demand at community level for essential obstetric, newborn and nutrition services as well as improve health workers' skills.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Tanzania: Foundation to Initiate Global Development Process
[Daily News]THE Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) plans to initiate an inclusive consultations process on the future global development agenda.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
My Journey of Recovery – Debbie’s Story
I had my surgery full abdominial hysterectomy at West Suffolk Hospital. My experience was not great Instead of recovering on the gynaecology ward I was put on the short stay surgical ward, staff were very junior and the experience was very inpersonnel. I had previously undergone a gynea operation two years ago where things had not gone so well where I ended up in the intensive care so was worried about my care already.
I went down for surgery at 13.30pm and remember being in recovery where stabilizing my pain seemed to take some time. I went back to the short stay surgical ward at 18.40pm – there were 5 other people ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Hysterectomy Recovery Latest News Your Stories after care west sussex hospital Source Type: news
Tanzania: Doctor Takes on Maternal Mortality
[Daily News]IF it were in Christianity, a doctor in Kigoma town jokingly said recently, Dr Godfrey Mbaruku would be revered as another Jesus Christ, for saving the region's pregnant women from being depleted by maternal mortality.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 3, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Kenya: Kenyans Urged to Know Their HIV/Aids Status
[Capital FM]"The only solution to effectively respond to HIV/AIDs is to know your status," this the message National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NASCOP) Head Dr Maina Kahindo sent to Kenyans a day before the globe marked the World AIDs Day.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 2, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
I am very nervous about having a hysterectomy, is this normal?
Question: I’m feeling very nervous about my forthcoming hysterectomy and I wonder if this is normal or if I’m just a wimp, can you help?
Our Answer: It is perfectly normal to be nervous about having a major operation such as a hysterectomy. In fact it can be helpful, as it will help you to make sure you have enough information about what can, and may, happen to help you feel prepared.
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - November 30, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: FAQ Latest News fear Source Type: news
Hysteria Short Story and Poetry Competition Winners Announced
Well, the stories and poems have all been read, analysed and scored by our band of intrepid readers and we now have the ten short-listed short story winners and the ten poetry winners to announce.
Short Story Competition – Short List
The short list for the short story competition winners, in no particular order, are:
Alison Wassell
Jayne Thickett
Hayley Staniforth-Moor
Tracy Fells
Penelope Lawrence
Olga Wajtas
Moya Poole
Jane Bean
Margaret Clark
Gaynor Jones
The short listed stories are now with our two final judges and the overall winner will be announced very shortly.
Poetry Winners
As you know, we are not having...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Hysteria 2012 Latest News poetry competition short story competition Source Type: news
Fear Often Drives Prophylactic Mastectomy (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Most breast cancer patients who undergo contralateral prophylactic mastectomy based the decision on fear, not science, according to a survey of more than 2,000 patients.
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
'Chemo Brain' a Real Thing
CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- The phenomenon known as "chemo brain" appears to correlate with reductions in glucose metabolism in brain regions tied to cognition, researchers said here.
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Dense Breasts Need More Than Mammograms
CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Women with mammographically dense breasts should have whole-breast ultrasound whenever they undergo cancer screening, according to new guidelines from the American Society of Breast Disease.
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Kenya: An Abortion That Got Rid of Too Much
[RNW Africa]Lydiah Kagere could not go about her business without glancing back. She imagined that everybody knew her secret and that they were all talking about her. She had lost a part of her body that some women would shield with their lives. Here is how it all began.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
South Africa: Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Campaign in Carnavon
[SA Govt]Alcohol is killing the moral fibre of our society, and it has now reached a point where unborn babies are disabled for life due to the fact that mothers are consuming alcohol during pregnancy. This phenomena has rocked the rural town of De Aar, to point where it is now the town with the highest reported incidences of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Nigeria: Physician Warns Parents On Early Child Marriage
[Vanguard]Abuja -Dr Patrick Okolie, an Abuja based, general medical practitioner, has advised parents, who still practice early child marriage, to have a change of heart, as it could endanger the child's whole life.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Shifting Tide On Abortion Law
[IRIN]Freetown -The new government is responding positively to health workers and youth groups who have long called for a change in the 1861 law banning abortion except in exceptional circumstances.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Uganda: Common Mistakes With Contraceptives
[Observer]Alex Kiwanuka says that emergency contraceptives, often referred to as morning-after pills, are the most commonly used contraceptive (as compared to non-emergency contraceptives). Kiwanuka works with the youth at Reproductive Health Uganda, and his observation could be representative of this demography. However, when he talks about the ways in which we abuse or misuse contraceptives, it isn't only the youth he talks about.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Uganda: Doctor - See a Doctor to Ascertain Discharge During Pregnancy
[Observer]Dear Doctor,
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 28, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Obstetricians' Attitudes on Maternal and Infant ImmunizationObstetricians' Attitudes on Maternal and Infant Immunization
Obstetricians are in a position to counsel pregnant women on important immunizations for themselves and for their infants, but do these patients take their advice? This new article explains. Maternal and Child Health Journal
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health Journal Article Source Type: news
Latest research allays IUD pelvic disease fear
The risk for developing pelvic inflammatory disease following an intrauterine device insertion is low, irrespective of whether a woman has been screened beforehand for gonorrhea and Chlamydia, research findings show.
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - November 27, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Namibia: Caesarean Sections At a Mission Hospital - a Six-Year Review (2001-2006)
[New Era]MATERNAL and infant (peri-natal) mortality and morbidity (that is, deaths and other adverse outcomes in mothers and their newborn and unborn offspring) are a significant measure of a nation's development.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 27, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
New Risk Factor Identified For High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
Preeclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy and the major cause of death for both mother and child in Europe and the U.S. It affects about one in 20 pregnancies. The main symptoms are high blood pressure and protein in the urine. The cause of preeclampsia is still unclear. Dr. Florian Herse (Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of the Max Delbruck Center (MDC) and the Charite), Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Source Type: news
Online Information On "Designer Vagina" Procedures Misleading And Inaccurate
Internet information regarding "designer vagina" procedures for women is often poor and sometimes inaccurate, suggests a new report published in the Obstetrics & Gynecology edition of the journal BMJ Open. The findings encourage researchers to urge that guidelines be created to improve criteria in order for women to make educated choices about an increasingly growing trend that has hardly been investigated as of yet...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Women's Health / Gynecology Source Type: news
Kenya: Sex Education Will Save Our Teenagers By Santina
[The Star]Every week, when we dedicate our Thursday and Friday on The Big Breakfast to having conversations with Generation Y, my e-mail box is flooded by teenagers, young adults and parents who feel a need to add to the conversation in writing and I am always thrilled and humbled to read their take on the various subjects.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 27, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
OCRF Research Finds MicroRNAs Convert Normal Cells into Cancer Promoters
Research funded by OCRF sheds new light on the molecular changes that convert harmless cells surrounding ovarian cancer cells into cells that promote tumor growth and metastasis. Research funded by Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, and published in Cancer Discovery, sheds new light on the molecular changes that convert harmless cells surrounding ovarian cancer cells into cells that promote tumor growth and metastasis. These cancer-supporting cells provide a novel target for treatment. The study’s lead author, Anirban Mitra, PhD, was funded by and OCRF Ann Schreiber Program of Excellence Award; senior authors Ernst ...
Source: OCRF News - November 27, 2012 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Azathioprine exposure concerns raised for SLE mothers
Researchers have raised the possibility of an increased risk for developmental delay in the children of mothers who used azathioprine for systemic lupus erythematosus during pregnancy.
Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn - November 26, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Medical Group: Sell The Pill Without Prescription
WebMD Medical News
By Rita Rubin
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Nov. 20, 2012 — Oral contraceptives should be made available without a prescription to reduce unintended pregnancies, according to a newly published opinion by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
Whether the pill should go over-the-counter has been debated at least since the early 1990s, says Dan Grossman, MD. He’s vice president of research at Ibis Reproductive Health, a research and advocacy organization. His research is cited in the opinion.
“I think it is a bold move,” Grossman says. “There havenR...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 26, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mreal197 Tags: WebMD News Source Type: news
My Big Top Tips for a Happy Hysterectomy – Diane’s Story
My experience around the whole thing has been very positive but then I did invest a lot of time and effort before the operation and that is my BIG TOP TIP. Prepare both physically and mentally beforehand.
Get as fit as you can before the event, invest in some excellent shoes for walking after the operation and get your friends motivated to take you out walking. I was up walking outside the hospital by day three and walking 30 minutes by day five. But then I did lots of gentle jogging and some weight training before that helped. I therefore didn’t get depressed I just went for a walk. By the end of six weeks I was wal...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - November 26, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Latest News Recovery Your Stories hysterectomy tips Source Type: news
Low-Cost Health Interventions Drastically Reducing Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone and Burundi
Burundi 2012 © Sarah Elliott
Mateso Emilienne, 25, was picked up by MSF ambulance the previous day from Gatumba Health Center. Her baby was delivered via Caesarean section.
2012 © MSF
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BO,SIERRA LEONE/NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 26, 2012—Ensuring pregnant women have timely access to emergency obstetric care has reduced maternal deaths by as much as 74 percent in parts of two African countries, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced today.
Medical data gathered in 2011 from MSF projects in Bo, Sierr...
Source: MSF News - November 26, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Nigeria: 12 African Countries for Breastfeeding Competition
[Leadership]Twelve African countries will be represented at the Breastfeeding Competition of this year's 5th African International Babycare and Mothercare Pre-Xmas Festival holding at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, next month, the Executive Director, AFRIBABY INITIAVE, Mrs. Olayinka Odiboh, has said.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 26, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Study compares nifedipine to atosiban for treating pre-term labour
Source: Obstetrics
Area: News
According to the results of a relatively small randomised controlled trial published in Obstetrics & Gynecology, the tocolytic agent atosiban was associated with fewer failures than nifedipine within 48 hours; however nifedipine may be associated with a longer postponement of delivery.
The authors note that preterm birth is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. The benefits of tocolytic therapy generally outweigh their risks between 24 and 33 weeks of gestation, and they should be used provided there are no contraindications. The purpose of this study was to ...
Source: NeLM - News - November 26, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy - Enzyme Identified
Levels of the CYP2J2 enzyme are abnormally high in placental cells and the deciduas (uterine lining) among women with preeclampsia, researchers from Max Delbrück Center and Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, both in Germany, discovered. Preeclampsia, the most common pregnancy complication, is a condition in which there is a sudden, sharp rise in blood pressure, there is also swelling and excess protein albumin in urine (albuminuria). Preeclampsia is the major cause of death for both the pregnant mother and child in the USA and Europe...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 25, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Source Type: news
Tanzania: Schoolgirl Pregnancies - Try Adherence to Rules
[Daily News]SAYING 'no thank you' was part of etiquettes in the area where I grew up. My mother was so strict that none of her girls accepted a gift, no matter how small, not even if it was given by a relative.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 25, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Nigeria: 'Cross Rive Records Zero Child, Maternal Death in 2011'
[Vanguard]Calabar -Cross River State government has announced that the state recorded zero child, maternal death in 2011.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 25, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Nigeria: Afribaby Partners FRSC On Maternal, Infants' Road Safety
[This Day]The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and AFRIBABY INITIATIVE, a non-government organisation, have concluded plans to ensure the safety of nursing mothers and their infants on the roads, this yuletide.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 24, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Barriers To Smoking Cessation Services For Pregnant Women With Mental Disorders
Pregnant women with mental health disorders are facing too many barriers to help them quit smoking during pregnancy despite their willingness to accept support, finds a new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The study, undertaken by researchers at King's College London, looked at referrals to smoking cessation services and what barriers pregnant women with mental health disorders face compared to those women without disorders...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 24, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Smoking / Quit Smoking Source Type: news
Nigeria: Hurray! It's a Bouncing Baby
[Vanguard]For hours, Daniel Abiodun was lurked in a deep despair, as he peaces restlessly at the maternity ward in a Lagos hospital. Like a flash, series of event race through his troubled mind as he waits impatiently for his wife who was wheeled into the ward.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 24, 2012 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
