Obstetrics and Gynecology News

WASHINGTON - Women can delay having their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21 and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines released today by a major medical group.

Recent reports show that the rate of preterm deliveries continues to climb in the United States.

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin early Friday morning greeted news that renewed guidelines scale back screenings for cervical cancer by asking if bureaucratic panels were already rationing care.

Obese patients are no more likely to have post-operative complications than those of average weight when undergoing robotic surgery to remove uterine fibroids, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital.

Only days after a federal panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations for many women, another organization -- the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- has done the same for a screening credited with drastically reducing the rates of cervical cancer in the U.S. Women of all ages should undergo Pap smears less ...

New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and be screened less often than recommended in the past.

Young women should have their first Pap test no sooner than age 21, regardless of when they become sexually active, say new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

The guidelines on breast screening released Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force were compiled by a 16-member panel of experts in prevention and primary care.

Dianne Martinez spent two weeks last month fretting over abnormal mammogram results.

African-American women are twice as likely to suffer a late-pregnancy loss as white women -- partly because of higher rates of pregnancy- and labor-related complications, a government study finds.

The percentage of babies born preterm in the United States rose by more than 20 percent from 1990 to 2006, most delivered at the end of the preterm period, federal health officials report.

When a U.S. government task force recommended that women wait until they're 50 to get their first mammogram to check for breast cancer, reaction was swift.

Despite new recommendations that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said Tuesday that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change.

Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:41 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:41 a.m. LAKELAND A government task force's recommendation that most women delay having screening mammograms until age 50 and not bother with breast self-exams came as a bombshell to Dr.

In response to today's US Preventive Services Task Force statement that recommends against routine mammography screening for women in their 40s and recommends screening only once every two years for women ages 50 to 74, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists maintains its current advice that women in their 40s continue mammography ...

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammographies for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care "rationing" in the fight against the No.

Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an integrated specialty pharmaceutical company with both development and commercial capabilities focused on women's healthcare and pain management, announced today that Lysteda oral tablets has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for treatment of women suffering from cyclic heavy menstrual bleeding , ...

This is John M. Thorp Jr., M.D., from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.