March 15, 2019
Behind the Rise in Uterine Cancer Cases
Dr. Beth Karlan, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of cancer population genetics at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was interviewed by Health.com for a story about the rise in cases of uterine cancer and what women should know about the disease. The article was republished by MSN.com.
March 15, 2019
Sexually Transmitted Infections Are on the Rise. Here’S What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself
Shadman Habibi, CNM, MSN, director of the UCLA Nurse-Midwives Program at UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center, commented in a Today.com article on doulas and midwives.
February 14, 2019
Sexually Transmitted Infections Are on the Rise. Here’S What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself
Dr. Leena Nathan, Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, explains which infections sexually active people are more likely to be exposed to and to contract. UCLA Newsroom >
February 8, 2019
Dr. Aparna Sridhar, a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, commented in the New York Times about a rise in patients requesting an intrauterine device, or IUD, for long-term birth control following the election of Donald Trump. Dr. Sridhar’s comments were picked up by more than 10 other publications, including Cosmopolitan, Elite Daily, Business Insider and Kaiser Health News.
January 25, 2019
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, was quoted in a Reuters Health article on a study that found low-income women could not afford menstrual hygiene products such as tampons or pads.
January 4, 2019
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, was quoted in a Today.com story about pregnancy complications that could lead to chronic health problems. Her quote was also cited in USA Today.
December 17, 2018
How your BRCA status may impact your ovarian cancer treatment
SELF.com interviewed Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, about how the BRCA gene is associated with more than just breast cancer. The article also ran in Yahoo! News.
December 17, 2018
Dr. Zain Al-Safi, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was quoted in Well and Good on an article about fertility trackers.
November 6, 2018
Dr. Christopher Tarnay, chief of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at UCLA Health, and a team of UCLA doctors, nurses and medical students, have been traveling to Mbarara Hospital annually for two-week surgical trips to treat up to 50 women each time. Story on newsroom.ucla.edu > Additional coverage: myscience.org >
November 2. 2018
Shadman Habibi, CNM, MSN, director of the UCLA Nurse-Midwives Program at UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center, commented in a Today.com article on why and how women become midwives
October 30, 2018
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, was quoted in Reuters about a study that found women who become pregnant shortly after the birth of another child may face higher health risks for themselves and the new baby.
October 5, 2018
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health Westlake Village, commented in a KCRW-FM segment on women who smoke marijuana during pregnancy.
September 21, 2018
Dr. Molly Quinn, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was quoted by NPR about research suggesting that children conceived through certain infertility treatments may be at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease. The websites of Southern California Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, New England Public Radio, and 22 others ran the article.
September 14, 2018
Dr. Sridhar Aparna, a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was interviewed by LAist for a story on what age women should begin visiting a gynecologist, and what to expect during the visit.
September 7, 2018
Dr. Senaz Memarzadeh, a professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology and a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, commented to Women’s Health about how abdominal bloating may be a sign of an ovarian cancer.
August 31, 2018
Shadman Habibi, director of the UCLA Nurse-Midwives Program at UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center, was quoted in Today.com about a slight increase in home births during the past decade.
August 24, 2018
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, commented to Everyday Health about a new treatment for endometriosis.
August 24, 2018
Dr. Sridhar Aparna, a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was quoted by Self.com about women who experience spotting while using birth control.
August 24, 2018
Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh, a professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, director of the G.O. Discovery Laboratory at UCLA and a member of both the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UCLA Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research, was featured in News-Medical.net, Health News Digest, Medicine News Line, MDLinx and Medical Newser for Dr. Memarzadeh’s expertise on ovarian cancer.
August 10, 2018
Dr. Aparna Sridhar, a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was quoted in a Women’s Health article about what is the ‘right’ age for a woman to get pregnant. The article was syndicated in Cosmopolitan U.K., Yahoo Style U.K., and MSN.com. Sridhar also commented in an InStyle article on the most common questions that women ask their gynecologists. The story was syndicated in Family Circle and Shape.
July 20, 2018
Dr. Deborah Krakow, chair of obstetrics/gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an othopaedic surgeon at the UCLA Orthopaedic Center in Santa Monica, commented in onclive.com about patient populations who should undergo genetic testing for ovarian cancer.
July 13, 2018
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, commented in LiveScience on whether wet bathing suits can cause yeast infections. The article also ran in Express.co.uk and in Spanish in E!Confidential.com
July 13, 2018
Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh, a professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the G.O. Discovery Laboratory at UCLA, addressed new cancer therapies for gynecologic cancers on OncLive and detailed the early developments of antibody-directed therapies and restoring p53 function in the treatment of patients with ovarian cancer. Memarzadeh is also a member of the UCLA Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research.
June 27, 2018
Serena Williams says she had a period while pregnant - but is that possible? Gynecologists explain why you CAN bleed after conceiving
Dr. Aparna Sridhar, a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was quoted in the Daily Mail about potential causes for bleeding during the early stages of pregnancy.
June 27, 2018
San Francisco-based startup offers at-home hormone tests for fertility
Dr. Aldo Palmieri, director of OB-GYN at UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center, commented in a CBS This Morning segment on a new at-home fertility kit. The story appeared on CBS.com, KCBS-AM Radio and KRLD-AM Radio, Dallas, Texas.
June 25, 2018
Pregnant women are eating this salad because they claim it induces labor
Dr. Leena Nathan, assistant clinical professor of OB-GYN at UCLA Health Westlake Village, commented in a Circa.com segment about a restaurant that claims an ingredient in its salad dressing can help induce labor. The segment has received more than 100k views in less than a week.
June 15, 2018
Minimally invasive surgery for early-stage ovarian cancer
Dr. Joshua Cohen, a gynecologic oncologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village and a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was featured in an OncLive video discussing surgery for patients with early-stage ovarian cancer.
May 25, 2018
Dr. Daniel Dumesic, a professor of obstetrics/gynecology and chief of reproductive endocrinology and infertility, was quoted in Women's Health on how women with polycystic ovary syndrome can lose weight.
May 18, 2018
Dr. Rashmi Rao, an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics/gynecology, was quoted in an NBC News.com article about high rates of women who die after childbirth in the U.S. and what hospitals are doing to address the problem.
May 11, 2018
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and an obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, commented in a Huffington Post article on a new study finding that 70 percent of Colorado dispensaries endorsed cannabis products to help pregnant women with nausea in the first trimester.
May 4, 2018
The “Trump effect” on long-acting reversible contraception
MedPage Today and MDEdge reported on research by Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, about birth control rates on campus. The study found that the number of students requesting intra-uterine devices at a university health center more than doubled, compared to the previous year, after the 2016 presidential election. Presented at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ annual meeting, the findings suggest that women were concerned about changes in insurance coverage of contraception under the new administration.
April 13, 2018
Treating pain during menstrual cycles
Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was interviewed by Daily Mail UK for an article about how women can manage pain during their menstrual cycle using a combination of medications and natural methods. The story was syndicated in the U.K. Mail on Sunday, The Scottish Sun and The Irish Sun.
April 13, 2018
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, commented in an Everyday Health article with tips to relieve endometriosis pain. She also commented in a separate Everyday Health story about using birth control pills to treat endometriosis.
March 30, 2018
New clue to why some newborns are severaly underweight
Dr. Carla Janzen, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Dr. Sherin Devaskar, the Mattel Executive Endowed Chair in Pediatrics at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and executive director of the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute, led a UCLA study finding that a cellular protein called humanin appears at significantly higher levels in the placentas of mothers whose newborns are 5 ½ pounds or less than in the placentas of women whose babies are at normal weight. The research findings were covered by MedicalXpress and News-Medical.net.
March 23, 2018
Postpartum Bill for Postpartum Depression
Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, was interviewed on KFI 640AM about a proposed bill that would help women be screened for post-partum depression. KFI-AM.
Feb 07, 2018
411 About HPV | Cancer Vaccine For STD/STI Ignored By Many
Dr. Joshua Cohen, an assistant professor and gynecologic oncologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, commented in VC Reporter article on the HPV vaccine and its role in preventing HPV infections from becoming cancerous later in life.
Feb 02, 2018
How To Treat Endometriosis
Everyday Health interviewed Dr. Leena Nathan on treatments for pain associated with endometriosis, a chronic condition with no cure. Nathan is an assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village.
Jan 31, 2018
Endometriosis Symptoms and Diagnosis
Dr. Leena Nathan, assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, commented in an Everyday Health article about the symptoms of endometriosis.
Jan 26, 2018
In Contraceptive Tech, the App's Guess is as Good as Yours
Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, commented in a Wired story about a contraceptive app that resulted in pregnancies.
Jan 23, 2018
Doctor Develops Video Game to Teach Teens About Sexual Health
Aparna Sridhar, MD, MPH, UCLA OB/GYN, partnered with Elena Bertozzi, PhD, associate professor of game development and design at Quinnipiac University, to create a video game that provides information about sexual reproduction and family planning.
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Dec 12, 2017
New Approach Detects Early Complications in Pregnancy
A UCLA study using MRI to non-invasively assess placental health and predict potential complications during pregnancy was covered by Dot Med News, Health Imaging and Romper. Published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the research was led by Kyung Sung, assistant professor of radiology; Dr. Carla Janzen, associate professor of obstetrics-gynecology; and Dr. Sherin Devaskar, physician-in-chief at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital; all of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Nov 15, 2017
The New Prospective Parenthood: When Does More Info Become Too Much?
Dr. Leena Nathan, assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, commented in a Leaps Mag story about the ethical questions that can arise from prenatal testing.
Nov 15, 2017
How To Choose Between Natural Birth Vs Epidural
Dr. Amy Stoddard, obstetrician and gynecologist at UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center and assistant clinical professor, commented in an article on The Bump.com about choosing between natural childbirth and epidurals.
Nov 15, 2017
Give Your Baby Formula
Dr. Leena Nathan, assistant clinical professor and obstetrician-gynecologist at UCLA Health-Westlake Village, commented in a Cosmopolitan.com article about giving babies formula when the mother is unable to feed the baby with breast milk. The article was syndicated by Yahoo! Lifestyle and Country Living.
Nov 10, 2017
ADHD Drugs During Pregnancy
Dr. Tina Nguyen, assistant professor of maternal-fetal medicine in obstetrics and gynecology, commented in Medscape about the use of ADHD drugs during pregnancy.
Sep 11, 2017
8 Ways College Women Can Protect Their Health
Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, Los Angeles, offers several tips in a university news release.
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Aug 15, 2017
A College Woman’s Guide to Feminine Health
Dr. Aparna Sridhar -- “This new sense of independence should also include taking charge of one’s own health,” says Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Story on connect.uclahealth.org >
Aug 15, 2017
Protecting kids against HPV before cancer risk increases
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Jul 12, 2017
Placenta Pills Come Under Scrutiny After Being Linked to Newborn’s Infection
Story on healthline.com >
Jun 30, 2017
UCLA team performs emergency surgery to save mom and newborn baby
Story on uclahealth.org >
Jun 21, 2017
High-fat diet leads to same intestinal inflammation as a virus
Story on newsroom.ucla.edu >
Jun 09, 2017
No More Free Birth Control in the Age of Trump? Not If These Women’s Health Initiatives Can Help It
Dr. Aparna Sridhar -- “Contraception is such a key part of preventative care for women,” says Dr. Aparna Sridhar, obstetrics professor at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, of its wide-sweeping importance beyond pregnancy.
Story on vogue.com >
May 24, 2017
Obstetricians and gynecologists: What's the difference?
Story on medschool.ucla.edu >
Apr 03, 2017
Combination Therapy Could Provide New Treatment for Ovarian Cancer
Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh -- Researchers have been trying to understand why up to 85 percent of women experience recurrence of high-grade serous ovarian cancer — the most common subtype of ovarian cancer — after standard treatment with the chemotherapy-drug carboplatin.
Story on uclahealth.org >
Mar 01, 2017
Looking for relief, pregnant women turn to marijuana despite medical advice
Story on newsroom.ucla.edu >
Dec 28, 2016
7 things your OB-GYN won't tell you
Story on foxnews.com >
Nov 03, 2016
Fat-cell Storage Altered in Women with Infertility Disorder, Small NIH-funded Study Suggests
Dr. Daniel Dumesic -- Increased fat storage around internal organs may influence diabetes risk seen in polycystic ovary syndrome. Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) may store fat differently than women who don’t have the common infertility disorder, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The study authors found that women with PCOS tended to accumulate fat around the internal organs of the abdomen.
Study on nichd.nih.gov > | PCOS Research UCLA > | What is PCOS? >
Oct 22, 2016
UCLA OB/GYN Participates in Light the Night, Supporting Leukemia & Lymphoma Research
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of California, Los Angeles, teamed up with UCLA Health at the 2016 Los Angeles Light the Night Walk, supporting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). On Saturday, Oct. 22, starting at 4:30 p.m. at LA Live, patients, families and staff members from UCLA Health — a presenting sponsor of the event — took part in the inspiring nighttime walk that started at LA Live.
Story on newsroom.ucla.edu >
Feb 11, 2016
UCLA Team Travels to Uganda to Treat Patients with Obstetric Fistula
Story on uclahealth.org >
Jan 01, 2016
UCLA Scientists Test New Strategy That Could Help Fight Ovarian Cancer
Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh -- UCLA scientists have developed a promising novel method to treat gynecologic tumors. The approach focuses on a protein called p53, which is commonly mutated in women who have high-grade serous ovarian cancer, the deadliest form of reproductive cancer. In many women with the disease, the cancer is very advanced by the time it is diagnosed and is therefore difficult to treat.
Story on uclahealth.org >
June 25, 2015
When Missed Periods Are a Metabolic Problem
Story on theatlantic.com >
PCOS Challenge and UCLA Health Address Critical PCOS Healthcare Gaps Impacting Millions of Women
June 3, 2015
Dr. Daniel Dumesic -- LOS ANGELES, /PRNewswire/ -- PCOS Challenge, the leading nonprofit support organization for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), announces its Western Regional PCOS Awareness Symposium to help address seven critical education and healthcare practice gaps adversely impacting the physical, mental and emotional health of millions of women. These education and practice gaps are causing many women and girls with PCOS to struggle for years undiagnosed or ill-equipped to address the mental, emotional and physical issues that scar their social development and leave them exposed to numerous life-threatening related conditions. The PCOS Challenge symposia help address education and healthcare gaps by bringing together hundreds of patients and world leading researchers and clinicians for a day of sharing experiences, insights and the latest updates about the condition.
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UCLA Reports New Two-Punch Therapy To Treat Endometrial Cancer
Feb, 2014
Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh on examiner.com -- Cancer of the endometrium (uterine lining) is the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs. It is highly curable when found early; however, for women who are diagnosed at a more advanced stage, the outlook is much less rosy and can result in death. Approximately 49,000 new cases of endometrial cancer will be diagnosed this year alone, and about 8,000 American women will die from their cancers. Now, UCLA researchers have developed a new therapy that can be effective for the treatment of more advanced endometrial cancer. "A PARP inhibitor was given orally in two hormonal extremes: high and low estrogen,” explained senior author Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the G.O. Discovery Lab at UCLA. She added, “The treatment achieved a significant reduction in tumor size in a low estrogenic milieu. In striking contrast, no response to the inhibitor was seen in tumors exposed to high levels of estrogen."
Article examiner.com > | Additional Coverage: sciencedaily.com > | dddmag.com > | medicalnewstoday.com >
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Infertility, Diabetes, Obesity and the Mystery of PCOS
Jan, 2014
Dr. Daniel Dumesic on The Wall Street Journal -- Scientists Look Anew at a Common Problem for Women Trying to Get Pregnant
Scientists know this much about polycystic ovary syndrome: It is one of the most common causes of infertility. It's linked to diabetes and several other troubling health problems. It affects as many as 5 million U.S. women. But the condition, also known as PCOS, largely remains a mystery. Researchers are trying to better understand the disorder, which is generally defined by an excess production of the hormone testosterone, irregular ovulation and cysts—fluid-filled sacs—within the ovaries. Some teams are trying to improve its treatment to lessen its impact on women's reproductive health and metabolism, or how the body uses or makes energy. The womb environment also appears critical to its development. Daniel Dumesic, a professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues found that by exposing mother monkeys with high doses of testosterone, their female offspring developed PCOS-like features after birth, including higher testosterone levels. They now are studying whether the bodies of women with PCOS, because of excess testosterone, store fat in tissues where it shouldn't be. Dr. Dumesic hypothesizes that this may impact the function of the ovary and perhaps fertility.
Article online.wsj.com > | View PDF Version > | Women’s Reproductive Health Research Program > | What is PCOS? >
Mobile App Developed at UCLA Helps Women Choose Birth Control Method
May, 2013
Dr. Aparna Sridhar -- A new, free iPad application developed at UCLA helps women navigate through the sometimes confusing process of selecting a birth control method using medically accurate information. The easy-to-use app highlights the most effective types of birth control and reveals potential side effects and risks associated with each option. The app, called Plan A Birth Control or Plan ABC, is designed to help a woman prepare for her visit with a contraception counselor or an OB-GYN. It was developed by Dr. Aparna Sridhar, a clinical fellow in family planning in the UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Story on newsroom.ucla.edu >
Celebrity Moms Having Babies Into Their 40s
Apr, 2013
Dr. Daniel Dumesic on ABC News -- At age 46, Halle Berry announced this week that she's pregnant with her second child, calling it "The biggest surprise of my life." But she's not the only celebrity getting pregnant in her 40s. Actress Kelly Preston was 47 when she welcomed her third child into the world with husband John Travolta. Mariah Carey also had her babies at age 40, the same age Nicole Kidman gave birth to daughter Sunday Rose, her first child with Australian country singer Keith Urban. "Celebrities want a healthy life, career, family in general, so once a career is in place, the obvious shift is the family," People magazine writer Raha Lewis told ABC News. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that births for women in the 40 to 44 year-range increased 10 percent from 2007 to 2011, despite the stats we've been hearing for years that fertility decreases at age 30, and after age 45, the chance of getting pregnant drops to less than 1 percent. "The introduction of egg vitrification or freezing has been a tremendous move forward," Dr. Daniel Dumesic, UCLA Professor of OBGYN, said. "And then to also offer genetic testing for the embryos has also been a tremendous move forward in the field of reproduction."
Article on gma.yahoo.com.
Doctors, Filmmakers Share Sad Stories of Mothers Worldwide
Mar, 2013
Dr. Chris Tarnay on today.ucla.edu -- Somewhere on the planet, there's a woman facing death in the midst of giving life. Roughly 1,000 women die each day due to pregnancy-related causes. For every woman who dies, there are 20 to 30 more who will suffer from lifelong disabilities caused by childbirth. Less than a week before Mother’s Day, former supermodel Christy Turlington Burns was at UCLA to discuss these issues and to share her gripping directorial debut, "No Woman, No Cry," which chronicles the stories of at-risk pregnant women from four parts of the world — a remote Maasai tribe in Tanzania, a Bangladesh slum, a post-abortion-care ward in Guatemala and a prenatal clinic in the U.S. The screening, held May 7 at the Tamkin Auditorium at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, was followed by a panel discussion featuring Turlington Burns; Ted Braun, the writer and director of the 2007 documentary on the genocide in Sudan, "Darfur Now," and an associate professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts; Dr. Paula Tavrow, director of UCLA's Bixby Program in Population and Reproductive Health and an adjunct assistant professor of community health sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health; and Dr. Christopher Tarnay, director of urogynecology in the UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Tarnay recently returned from a Medicine for Humanity mission in Uganda.
Article on today.ucla.edu >
Coco Eco Magazine | Men We Love
July/Aug, 2012
Dr. Chris Tarnay on cocoecomag.com -- Coco Eco met with Dr. Chris Tarnay at the UCLA Medical Center, where he acts as codirector of the Fibroid Treatment Program. There in the glistening and vast, newly built facility we learned about his work with Medicine for Humanity (MFH) where there is scarce access to women’s healthcare, or many times even the social acceptance of it. Dr. Tarnay and his colleagues travel regularly to Mbarra, Uganda to work with expecting mothers and women who lack prenatal care and healthcare, which are the result of poverty, limited educational opportunities and lack of outlying health care infrastructure.
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Study shows extreme form of pregnancy-related morning sickness could be genetic
Pregnant women whose sisters had condition are 17 times more likely to have it.
By Enrique Rivero | November 04, 2010
Approximately 60,000 pregnant women are hospitalized each year due to hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), an extreme form of nausea and vomiting that endangers their lives and often forces them to reluctantly terminate their pregnancies. And for women with sisters, mothers and grandmothers on either side of the family who have experienced extreme morning sickness during pregnancy, the risk of HG may be heightened, according to a new study led by researchers from UCLA and the University of Southern California.
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New UCLA clinic improves quality of life for women suffering from pelvic floor disorders
Women with pelvic floor disorders — the most common of which is urinary incontinence followed by fecal incontinence and organ prolapse — often fail to receive appropriate treatment for their condition.
Recession Prompts Some Couples to Delay Having Kids
Week of Dec. 5 - 11, 2008
Dr. Khalil Tabsh, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was quoted Dec. 10 in a Los Angeles Times article about the effect the economic recession may have on birth rates.
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America’s Top Doctors for Women
Week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2008
Dr. Ricardo Azziz, professor-in-residence of obstetrics and gynecology, was named one of America’s top doctors for women by Women’s Health magazine.
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Pregnancy Weight Gain, Big Babies Linked
Week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2008
Dr. Richard Frieder, staff obstetrician and gynecologist at UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center, was quoted in an Oct. 31 WebMD story about the link between pregnancy weight gain and the baby’s weight at birth.
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Fox’s ‘House’ Scenario Rare Yet Possible
Week of Sept. 19 - 25, 2008
Dr. Khalil Tabsh, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, commented Sept. 22 in a Los Angeles Times article about the accuracy of a recent TV show’s portrayal of an abdominal pregnancy. “Fox’s ‘House’ Scenario Rare Yet Possible”.
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