First Kicks by Dr. Greene: Track Your Baby ’ s Development During Pregnancy, by Week
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 2, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: DrGreene Team Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 2, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: DrGreene Team Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Fertility: 12 things you didn ’t know (and 1 to never ask)
By Katrina Mark, MD
1. Fertility naturally declines as we age
That alone doesn’t mean you should start to worry. The general advice I give a woman is if she has been trying to become pregnant for a full year with no luck, she might consider a fertility evaluation. For a woman over age 35, she might consider it after six months. If a woman is younger and has irregular periods, it’s likely she isn’t regularly ovulating, so she might want to be evaluated sooner.
2. Sometimes there’s a reason for infertility – and sometimes, there’s not
There are some things we know cause infertility. About 20 percent of the time,...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 2, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Health Tips Women's Health fertility Katrina Mark obgyn UMMC Source Type: blogs
Surrogacy ? or donor egg ?
I just received this email from a patientMy date of birth : 24/7/73 (43 years old)My partner date of birth : 11/3/76 (41 years old)Trying to conceive 4 years, since May 2013One previous pregnancy in June 2013, first month of trying, ended in early miscarriage at 5.5 weeks.Started IVF in September 2014 and have had 7 failed cycles to date. Details below:Cycle 1: October 2014Gonal F - 600 units4 eggs retrieved1 fertilised with icsi1 top grade 8 cell embryo (no fragmentation) was transferred on Day 3No pregnancyCycle 2: April 2015Fostimon - 600 unitsEarly ovulation before egg collection meant I lost at least 1 mature egg...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - April 30, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 10th 2017
This study shows that lifespan-extending conditions can slow molecular changes associated with an epigenetic clock in mice livers.
Diverse interventions that extend mouse lifespan suppress shared age-associated epigenetic changes at critical gene regulatory regions
Age-associated epigenetic changes are implicated in aging. Notably, age-associated DNA methylation changes comprise a so-called aging "clock", a robust biomarker of aging. However, while genetic, dietary and drug interventions can extend lifespan, their impact on the epigenome is uncharacterised. To fill this knowledge gap, we defined age-assoc...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 9, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Mechanism to Explain Age-Related Loss in Female Fertility
Here, researchers identify a form of cellular damage that appears to be a proximate cause of the loss of female fertility with advancing age. But what causes this damage? Tying their observations to other, earlier forms of damage and dysfunction in aged tissues will no doubt be a great deal of work if pursued through purely investigative methods. The fastest approach to such a situation tends to be to fix the damage and see what happens as a result, but the lack of readily available repair therapies has hampered this approach in the past. Now that the first of these treatments are emerging, such as senescent cell clearance...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 5, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Some Things are Better Left Unsaid
It’s been on the news, but thankfully not too much. The US Preventive Health Services Task Force just issued a statement saying there was “no evidence of value for celiac disease screening.”
Taken out of context, without a careful reading of the statement, an understanding of the distinction between “screening,” “diagnosis,” and “case finding,” without sufficient background about the role of the Task Force, and in the midst of today’s controversies about “going gluten free,” this statement might easily lead to misinterpretation by patients, families, clinicians and insurers.
Even with my years of ex...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Our Bonus Baby - Our Success Story at Malpani Clinic
We are from Bangalore and had been trying to conceive from past 10+ years without any success. We had seen multiple doctors here and tried stimulated cycles, couple of IUIs and one round of IVF at highly reputed clinics here. We even tried alternative medicines like homeopathy, ayurveda etc.. In these past 10+ years, I conceived naturally 4 times but miscarried before 9 weeks.When we decided to do IVF at the end of 2012, I contacted Dr. Malpani for second opinion and his feedback gave me a lot of confidence to go ahead with IVF with a local clinic, but it was not a success. The tremendous stress I went through this IV...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - April 1, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Stop judging: Sometimes terminating a pregnancy is necessary
The women’s health has a history of being a volatile sector, especially of late. It is an area of medicine where politicians think they can have access to intimate and confidential patient-physician relationships. This is unacceptable and an invasion of privacy.
Voluntary termination of pregnancy. Voluntary interruption of pregnancy. These are the medical terms for what the layperson thinks of as an abortion.
Missed abortion. Threatened abortion. Incomplete abortion. Spontaneous abortion. Septic abortion. Inevitable abortion. These are medical terms for the failure or potential failure of a pregnancy. These terms also mo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 13, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Chrissy Teigen ’s IVF backlash
When it comes to the uterus, people tend to have incredibly strong opinions. In fact, many of the people with strong beliefs don’t even have a uterus of their own. I would venture even further to say that if you asked many of these “opinion-havers” where the uterus was in a woman’s body or exactly what its function was, they would have no idea.
Yet, here we find ourselves, 44 years after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion for women across America, still arguing over whether a woman has the right to terminate her pregnancy. Again we have to fight for organizations such as Planned Parenthood to exist, despite the prevent...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 3, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jessica-celine-morgan" rel="tag" > Jessica Celine Morgan < /a > Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
The Importance of Raising Good Men and Strong Women
The decision to become a parent is not one to be taken lightly. Sometimes it occurs by carefully considered choice and in other circumstances, it comes as a surprise. Ideally, a child is welcomed into a family; cherished and nurtured with both food and love. Sadly, that is not always the case.
The offices of psychotherapists are filled with clients who were subjects of relationships gone awry, of neglect and abuse. Words that sting as harshly as objects used to deliver punishing blows are spewed in anger, causing sometimes irreparable damage. The adage, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me...
Source: World of Psychology - March 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Anger Children and Teens Family LifeHelper Parenting Psychotherapy Psychotherapy Stories Treatment Addiction adopting Child Development Child Psychology coparenting Divorce Modeling Source Type: blogs
My patient was right: I was awful when she had a miscarriage
On a busy day in the office, a patient was added to my schedule for “bleeding, early pregnancy.” She was one of my partner’s patients, but he was not in the office that day. We talked for a minute, then I examined her and did an ultrasound. As I expected, she was in the process of a miscarriage. Unfortunately, I, who wasn’t her regular doctor, had to give her this news. We discussed the option of a dilation and curettage (D&C) or letting nature take its course. She was unsure and wanted time to decide. After we had talked, I left the room for her to dress and check out. About a month later, I received a letter ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Patients are unique with individual needs. That is the art of medicine.
On a busy day in the office, a patient was added to my schedule for “bleeding, early pregnancy.” She was one of my partner’s patients, but he was not in the office that day. We talked for a minute, then I examined her and did an ultrasound. As I expected, she was in the process of a miscarriage. Unfortunately, I, who wasn’t her regular doctor, had to give her this news. We discussed the option of a dilation and curettage (D&C) or letting nature take its course. She was unsure and wanted time to decide. After we had talked, I left the room for her to dress and check out. About a month later, I received a letter ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Why it ’s important to protect Roe vs. Wade at the state level
G1P0 or Gravida 1, Para 0. Well, turns out that’s me. It’s very common in the medical field to use this phrase to describe women who have been pregnant but do not have any living children. This could have been due to miscarriage or worse yet, intrauterine fetal demise at later staged pregnancies. Or it could be due to an elective termination. For me, it was the latter.
I had never been pregnant, and the idea of having a child was very far from my mind. Having just started my surgical residency, I simply could not be pregnant. Lo and behold three pregnancy tests I took while at work told me otherwise. My husband and I w...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
