Obstetrics & Gynecology
Lauren Finely’s iPhone alarm buzzes. Finely, a 26-year-old first-year medical resident, slips on baby blue scrubs, grabs some fruit, and makes a coffee-to-go for her 15-minute commute to GW Hospital, where a long day is about to begin.
Dr. Nancy Gaba, associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was featured in the Washington Post in an article about social media and pregnancy/delivery.
WASHINGTON (May 10, 2011) - GW Researcher Dr. Alex Stagnaro-Green, and colleagues, have contributed an editorial featured in the May 14 issue of the British Medical Journal reviewing a study that evaluated the relationship between thyroid autoantibodies and both miscarriage and preterm birth.
The drug company criticized for increasing the price of a pregnancy drug from $20 to $1,500 per dose announced that it's cutting the price by more than half.
Recent research shows that women who start the most common type of hormone therapy — estrogen plus progestin — soon after menopause have a significantly higher risk of breast cancer than those who take the hormones later or not at all.
Performing surgery on babies with the most severe form of spina bifida when they are still in the womb doubles the chance that they will be able to walk, according to a study that was coordinated by GW researchers.
Researchers at The George Washington University Medical Center played a key role in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study of a surgical procedure to repair a common birth defect of the spine, which if undertaken while a baby is still in the uterus, greatly reduces the need to divert, or shunt…