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OBGYN.net is pleased and happy to announce the Women's Health Forum is back!
Post your questions-reply to each other-enjoy the good old days. E-mail me with any ideas you have to make it the #1 women's health forum again. OBGYN.net medical professionals will be joining us in the next few weeks but until then help each other out and get to know each other.

Binge-Drinking Places Women at Risk on College Campuses - Jennifer Wider, M.D.

The Course of Mental Health After Miscarriage and Induced Abortion: A Longitudinal, Five-year Follow-up Study - A. Nordal Broen, T. Moum, A. Sejersted Bødtker & Ø. Ekeberg

A Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice Survey Among Obstetrician-gynaecologists on Intimate Partner Violence in Flanders, Belgium - K. Roelens, H. Verstraelen , K. Van Egmond & M. Temmerman

A Highly Accessed Review
A Little Help From My Friends: Caring for Premature Babies in a War Zone - Heather Harris

Choosing A Doctor
"The doctors at OBGYN.net are posed the question: How to pick a 'good doctor'. Not surprising, most of the doctors responded with the same 'method'."

Warning: Rohypnol, "The Date Rape Drug" - Sharon Hunter

A police detective shows teens and their parents that they're not as safe on MySpace as they think

Body Piercing - K. Kloberdanz

CDC - Youth Suicide

Frontiers in Reproductive Medicine - edited by Camran Nezhat, MD. In this session of "New Frontiers in Reproductive Medicine" we have chosen the topic of Hysteroscopic Sterilization by Radha Syed, MD and assisted by Adrienne L. Ligouri, MSIII.  Dr Syed has been one of the most enthusiastic supporters & adaptors of Minimally Invasive Surgery. She has been the course Director of one of the longest running & successful post graduate Endoscopy programmes for many years.

Keith Isaacson, MD will discuss the current utilization of diagnostic and operative hysteroscopy in an office setting as well as operative office hysteroscopy in treatment various intrauterine pathology such as myoma, polyp and Asherman's syndrome. Please also view the accompanying video: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

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Careers for Women

"Becoming an Ob/Gyn"  - D. Ashley Hill, MD

"What does a perinatologist do?"

Current News Headlines:

CDC to Release New Data on Sexually Transmitted Diseases Diagnoses
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releases it's 2006 Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance report, which includes the latest national trends in reporting of three nationally-notifiable STDs chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. The report shows increases in reported cases of all three of these STDs from 2005 to 2006, underscoring the need for continued vigilance in prevention, screening, and treatment efforts.

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Interviews

Interviews from AAGL 35th Congress:

Endometriosis & Pelvic Pain - Andrew S. Cook, MD
Education & CME Trends - Tamer A. Seckin, MD

From ACOG Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Barbara Nesbitt, Editor of OBGYN.net, interviews Katy Dawley, CNM  with the American College of Midwives on "Midwifery"

Visit our collection of interviews. OBGYN.net attends medical conferences and congresses around the world discussing the latest in women's health with international experts in the field.

Educational Tutorials

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Meetings & Conferences

• March 5-8, 2008 - Contraceptive Technology
• March 25-29, 2008 - 75th Annual Conference - ACOG
• April 30 - May 3, 2008 - 10th Congress of the European Society of Contraception
• November 27-30, 2008 - The 11th World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility (COGI)

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