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United States Department of Health and Human Services
New PSA Campaign Unveiled at the HHS/Department of Education Childcare Center. More... HHS Takes Additional Steps Toward Development of Vaccine for the Novel Influenza A (H1N1). President Obama is committed to working with Congress to pass ...More…
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Home Page
Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. The ...More…
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On Exhibit at NLM
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, ...More…
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Women's Health and Epilepsy
eMedicine — Overview: Epidemiology Population studies have reported the incidence of epilepsy in both sexes is 44 cases per 100,000 person years. The incidence in females, at 41 cases per 100,000 person years, is less than that for males, at 49 ... Associate ...More…
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Viral Infections and Pregnancy
eMedicine — Overview: IntroductionViral infections in pregnancy are major causes of morbidity and mortality for both mother and fetus. Infections can occur in the neonate transplacentally, perinatally (from vaginal secretions or blood), or postnatally (from ...More…
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Vanishing Twin Syndrome
eMedicine — Overview: Vanishing twin syndrome, first described by Stoeckel in 1945, is the identification of a multifetal gestation with subsequent disappearance of one or more fetuses. The rate of multifetal gestation at conception is higher than the ...More…
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Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery
eMedicine — Overview: Once a cesarean, always a cesarean. From the time they were spoken in 1916 to the New York Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists over the ensuing 50-60 years, these words reflected most of US obstetricians' management of ...More…
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Urinary Tract Infections in Pregnancy
eMedicine — Overview: Pregnancy causes numerous changes in the body of a woman. Hormonal and mechanical changes increase the risk of urinary stasis and vesicoureteral reflux. These changes, along with an already short urethra (approximately 3-4 cm in ...More…
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Umbilical Cord Complications
eMedicine — Overview: Umbilical cord complications in pregnancy are numerous, ranging from false knots, which have no clinical significance, to vasa previa, which often leads to fetal death. As prenatal ultrasound becomes increasingly sophisticated, many of ...More…
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Ultrasonography, Pelvic
eMedicine — Overview: Pelvic sonography may be viewed as a form or extension of the physical examination. In transabdominal scanning, a full bladder is used to displace bowel gas and serve as an acoustic window to allow a large ... Pelvic sonography may be ...More…
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Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy
eMedicine — Overview: Platelets are nonnucleated cells derived from megakaryocytes in the bone marrow and normally live in the peripheral circulation for as long as 10 days. Platelets play a critical initiating role in the hemostatic system. Primary ...More…
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Therapeutic Abortion
eMedicine — Overview: Therapeutic abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy before fetal viability in order to preserve maternal health. In its broadest definition, therapeutic abortion can be performed to (1) save the life of the mother, (2) ...More…