Competitive running before the perimenopausal period is associated with improved hip bone mineral density, but continued competitive running is not associated with prevention of perimenopausal hip bone mineral density decline.

Decreased paraoxonase activity might contribute to an increased propensity for the development of cardiovascular disease in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Patients with birth plans have the same cesarean section and episiotomy rate as matched controls without birth plans, but are less likely to receive an epidural in labor.

Management of menstrual migraine can reduce disability among women of childbearing age; triptans are safe and effective in acute and prophylactic treatment of menstrual migraine.

Our data provide another reason, achievement of a singleton pregnancy, to support the routine use of metformin for ovulation induction in polycystic ovary syndrome patients who are resistant to clomiphene citrate: a reduction in the risk of multiple gestation.

Pregnant servicewomen, women with partners deployed in the military, those with multiple children and those without support are at high risk of reporting increased stress levels.

Body mass index correlates significantly with estimates of maternal obesity during pregnancy.

Montelukast resulted in an average improvement of 52% in the vestibular pain score, and, in a subgroup, the improvement was >75%.

Since graded mild endocervical dysplasia has a minimal increased risk of progressing to severe dysplasia on subsequent loop electrical excision procedure specimens, these patients can be offered conservative follow-up with colposcopy rather than initial definitive therapy.

Obstetrician-gynecologists' treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy generally follows American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommendations, but respondents who read the organization's practice bulletin on the topic were more willing to treat aggressively.

Induced abortion contributes to significantly increased initial neonatal health costs, >$1.2 billion, and 1,096 excess cerebral palsy cases per year in the United States.

A high rate of cervical dysplasia in the reactive cellular changes group, Bethesda 3 system, was found.

The cure rate was 63.6%, which is equivalent to the efficacy of most regimens for the treatment of high-risk, drug-resistant gestational trophoblastic tumor.

The dinoprostone slow-release vaginal insert is the first choice for elective induction of labor in prolonged pregnancy.

A 36-year-old in vitro fertilization patient was successfully treated for a cervical pregnancy with only medical management.

A case of acute twin-twin transfusion syndrome occurred in a previously asymptomatic, monochorionic, diamniotic twin pregnancy with the mother hospitalized for preterm labor.

Lipid cell tumor of the ovary in an adolescent girl was associated with amenorrhea and virilization.

Vaginal stenosis developed in a woman with chronic myeloid leukemia as a manifestation of chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

The shallow intramural cervical myoma had to be sloughed off after cesarean section.

A case of chemical peritonitis was caused by an ovarian cyst rupture, lasted 1 year and required immunosuppressive drugs.

Cholelithiasis of the ovary is a rare finding and may occur when gallstones are dropped into the pelvis during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Although our results are only preliminary, our patient's initial improvement in outcome warrants additional investigation of the drug's potential efficacy as treatment for malignant pericardial effusion.

Obstetricians should be aware of the risk of abnormal placentation in women who have undergone dilatation and curettage, as it could lead to a life-threatening obstetric hemorrhage.

Aggressive management of group A streptococcal infection in the peripartum period can prevent life threatening morbidity.

A postmenopausal woman with endometrial hyperplasia and breast cancer experienced resolution of the hyperplasia with adjuvant anastrozole therapy.

Conservative treatment for spontaneous rupture of the uterus before fetal maturity may be considered as an alternative to hysterectomy.