Gynaecology & Obstetrics Feature Articles for Australian Healthcare

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Women who drink and smoke less likely to stick to chemoprevention 8/24/2011

Women at high risk of developing breast cancer who smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol were less likely to continue with their chemopreventive regimen and may require more adherence ...

Prolonged breastfeeding does not protect against eczema 8/24/2011

A worldwide study on the association between breastfeeding, time of weaning and eczema in children concludes there is no clear evidence that exclusive breastfeeding for four months ...

'Risk score' spots patients at high risk of serious blood clots 8/16/2011

A new risk prediction tool can identify patients at high risk of serious blood clots (known as venous thromboembolism) who might need preventative treatment, says a study published ...

Pre-pregnancy overweight may programme teen asthma symptoms 8/15/2011

Mums who are overweight or obese when they become pregnant may be programming their children to have asthma-like respiratory symptoms during adolescence, suggests research published ...

New therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer 8/2/2011

Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer may soon have an alternative therapy when they develop resistance to trastuzumab, also known as Herceptin, according to a laboratory finding ...

Bone up on ways to prevent osteoporosis 8/2/2011

During Healthy Bone Week (August 1 – 7), NPS MedicineWise is urging Australians to minimise their risk of osteoporosis from an early age through diet and lifestyle changes.

Breast cancer screening no direct part in reducing mortalities 7/29/2011

Breast cancer screening has not played a direct part in the reductions of breast cancer mortality in recent years, says a new study published on bmj.com.

Children born after unplanned pregnancy are slower to develop 7/27/2011

Children born after unplanned pregnancies tend to have a more limited vocabulary and poorer non-verbal and spatial abilities; however this is almost entirely explained by their ...

A doctor’s right: Conscientious objection to medical procedures 7/18/2011

Doctors should be allowed to object to any procedure that conflicts with their personal, moral, or religious beliefs, reveals a survey of medical students, published in the Journal ...

Manual breast milk expression better than breast pump 7/18/2011

Expressing breast milk by hand in the first days after birth is better for boosting breastfeeding rates among poorly feeding newborns than the use of a breast pump, indicates a small ...

Cancer mortality rates higher in men than women 7/13/2011

Overall cancer mortality rates are higher for men than women in the United States, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the ...

Eight glasses of water per day a "nonsense" 7/13/2011

The recommendation to drink six to eight glasses of water a day to prevent dehydration "is not only nonsense, but is thoroughly debunked nonsense," argues GP, Margaret McCartney in ...

Sitting for long periods doubles risk of blood clots in the lungs 7/11/2011

Women who sit for long periods of time everyday are two to three times more likely to develop a life threatening blood clot in their lungs than more active women, finds a study ...

Women still in grip of idealised love & sex 7/7/2011

Modern women are still heavily influenced by the idealised love and sex, purveyed by romantic fiction, says broadcaster and agony aunt Susan Quilliam in this month’s Journal of Family ...

Patients treated with Sunitinib & Sorafenib respond to flu vaccine 6/29/2011

Patients treated with sunitinib and sorafenib responded to the flu vaccine, which suggests the agents do not damage the immune system as much as previously feared, according to a ...

Obesity is a killer in non-smoking women 6/29/2011

Obesity is an important contributor to premature death in women who have never smoked, especially among women in low income groups, finds research published on bmj.com.

Breakfast with a friend could be just what the doctor ordered 6/27/2011

Spending too much time alone and regularly skipping breakfast might be pushing you closer to heart disease, warns the National Heart Foundation of Australia.

Do traditional birth attendants improve mother & child health? 6/20/2011

The use of traditional birth attendants in developed countries has generated a lot of heated debate over the decades. On bmj.com, two experts go head to head over whether traditional ...

Pressure to work when sick has long term negative effects 6/15/2011

Pressure to work through periods of short term sickness (known as "presenteeism") can have long term negative effects on health and productivity, warns an editorial published on ...

Should pregnant women sleep on their left? 6/15/2011

Women who do not go to sleep on their left side on their last night of pregnancy have a doubled risk of late stillbirth compared with women who sleep on their left side, finds research ...

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