OBGYN & Women's Health
If Woman’s Life Is in Danger, Doctors Must Offer Abortion: Biden Administration
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act applies to providers in all states, including those that now ban abortions
Accidental Awareness High With General Anesthesia in Obstetric Surgeries
Incidence one in 256 for all obstetric surgery and one in 212 for cesarean section surgery; seven of 12 patients reported distressing experiences
Incidence, Mortality of Subsequent Primary Cancers Up for AYA Survivors
Five-year survivors of adolescent and young adult cancers at higher risk for developing, dying from a new primary cancer
Mechanism ID’d for Thrombosis After ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccine
Testing for antibodies to platelet factor 4 positive in 22 of 23 patients; treatment with platelet transfusion should be avoided
Chatbot Generates Quality, Empathetic Responses to Patient Questions
Chatbot generates higher proportion of responses rated as good or very good quality and empathetic or very empathetic than physicians
Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup
Vaginal Progesterone Not Tied to Reduction in Recurrent Preterm Birth
Results do not appear to be influenced by adherence to vaginal progesterone
Anatomic Stage, Receptor Status Influence Timing of Breast Cancer Recurrence
Risk for recurrence was highest and occurred earliest for ER-negative/PR-negative/Her2neu-negative tumors
Clinical Language Model Can Predict Readmission
Model trained on clinical notes that accurately predict three clinical and two operational tasks
ACOG Guideline Addresses Hepatitis in Pregnancy
Guidelines developed for hepatitis B, C virus screening in pregnancy, management of infection, vaccination
