Mortality and Morbidity Among Pregnant Women With Epilepsy (JAMA Neurology)
Interview with Thomas F. McElrath, MD, PhD, author of Mortality and Morbidity During Delivery Hospitalization Among Pregnant Women With Epilepsy in the United States, and Jacqueline A. French, MD, author of Risks of Epilepsy During Pregnancy: How Much Do We Really Know? (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - July 6, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Reducing unintended pregnancy: The Lancet: June 17, 2015
Cynthia Harper discusses the effects of a clinic-based intervention to increase patients’ access to long-acting reversible contraceptives. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - June 18, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Reducing unintended pregnancy: The Lancet: June 17, 2015
Cynthia Harper discusses the effects of a clinic-based intervention to increase patients ’ access to long-acting reversible contraceptives. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - June 18, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Antidepressant Use Late in Pregnancy and Effects on Newborn
Interview with Krista F. Huybrechts, MS, PhD, author of Antidepressant Use Late in Pregnancy and Risk of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - June 2, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
" Fat Chance " -- The Discovery Files
Maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation may prime offspring for weight gain and obesity later in life, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, who looked at rats whose mothers consumed a high-fat diet and found that the offspring's feeding controls and feelings of fullness did not function normally. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - May 13, 2015 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
Treatment for epilepsy in pregnancy: neurodevelopmental outcomes in the child
Pregnant women with epilepsy need reliable information about the possible effects of antiepileptic drugs on their baby. Rebecca Bromley from the Institute of Human Development at the University of Manchester in the UK and others brought together the relevant research evidence in a new Cochrane Review in October 2014. She describes what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 6, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Best Prenatal Care to Prevent Pertussis
Tips on how you can help prevent pertussis by ensuring that pregnant women receive the Tdap vaccine. (Source: Medscape ObGyn Podcast)
Source: Medscape ObGyn Podcast - March 2, 2015 Category: OBGYN Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Best Prenatal Care to Prevent Pertussis
Tips on how you can help prevent pertussis by ensuring that pregnant women receive the Tdap vaccine. (Source: Medscape Pediatrics Podcast)
Source: Medscape Pediatrics Podcast - March 2, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Opioid Medication Prescribing to Women of Reproductive Age
CDC recommends avoiding opioid use in pregnancy, if possible, and limiting the duration and dose if effective pain management requires the use of opioids in pregnant women. (Source: Medscape Pharmacists Podcast)
Source: Medscape Pharmacists Podcast - January 23, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Antibiotics for prelabour rupture of membranes at or near term
The hundreds of reviews from the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth group cover a wide range of interventions and settings. Aleena Wojcieszek, from the Mater Research Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia describes the October 2014 update of one of these, investigating the use of antibiotics to prevent infection in women whose waters have broken, or more technically, whose membranes have ruptured. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - January 1, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Heart Health: Links to Pregnancy and Delivery
Factors that affect a woman's reproductive health can also have an effect on her heart, new research shows. Giving birth prematurely or delivering a small-for-gestational-age baby is associated with a later risk of cardiovascular disease in the mother. Another study found that when women's ovaries were removed and the estrogen was not replaced through hormone therapy, a woman's overall risk of dying increased, as did her risk of dying of heart disease or stroke. (Source: MUSC Heart and Vascular Podcast)
Source: MUSC Heart and Vascular Podcast - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medical University of South Carolina Source Type: podcasts
Influenza in Pregnancy: Prevention and Treatment
Pregnant women might not appreciate the dangers that influenza poses to them and their unborn children. (Source: Medscape Pharmacists Podcast)
Source: Medscape Pharmacists Podcast - November 24, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Self monitoring of hypertension in pregnancy
Guidelines encourage the use of self monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy, and research suggests that women prefer it. But Richard McManus, GP and professor of primary care at the University of Oxford explains that our enthusiasm may run ahead of the evidence and call for more research before it is routinely adopted.
Read the full... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 20, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Self monitoring of hypertension in pregnancy
Guidelines encourage the use of self monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy, and research suggests that women prefer it. But Richard McManus, GP and professor of primary care at the University of Oxford explains that our enthusiasm may run ahead of the evidence and call for more research before it is routinely adopted.
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g6616 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 20, 2014 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
