ObGyn.net blogger Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG, responds to the news that new health care laws will require pharmaceutical companies to disclose all payments to doctors.

Persistent pulmonary hypertension, which affects as many as 2 per 1,000 liveborn infants, is a life-threatening condition. While there are many risk factors, research has linked the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in late pregnancy with increased risk for persistent pulmonary hypertension.

The Obama administration is considering requiring drug companies to disclose all payments they make to doctors. This would include funds for research, speaking engagements, consulting, entertainment, etc.

This is our LSCS patient, post-op. Currently, she has a history of pain in the lower abdomen and pelvis with scanty discharge from wound site.

As a gynecological oncologist, I often see patients who want to be tested for cancer because a close family member has just been diagnosed. Understandably, they want to be sure they don’t have it.

The fibroid is a tumor that is very frequently encountered in the uterus on both clinical examinations as well as on routine pelvic sonography.

One of the problems with sonography of the early pregnancy is the inability to clearly determine if the gestation sac is intrauterine or extrauterine (ectopic) in nature. This task is even more complicated by the controversies arising from whether the “sac” seen is a true sac or a pseudosac of ectopic pregnancy.

She just paged you again. It is “urgent”, just like the last 5 times. You sigh deeply: no matter how many times you tell her that her labs are normal, explain that some shortness of breath is expected in the last trimester, or reassure her that her heartburn is not a first sign of a heart attack (yes, you checked) – it simply won’t stick.

When a graafian follicle ruptures to release an oocyte, it is transformed into a corpus luteum. The corpus luteum is lined by a layer of granulose cells which rapidly become vascularized; some of these thin-walled vessels can rupture. This causes bleeding into the corpus luteum, resulting in the formation of a hemorrhagic cyst of the ovary.