Seatbelts could save 200 fetuses a year
(04/02/08) A new study could have a profound effect on fetal deaths and injuries caused by car crashes. The study, by researchers at the University of Michigan, found that about 200 fetuses each year would not be lost if pregnant women properly used their seatbelts every time they were in an automobile.
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Tim R.B. Johnson named president of APGO
(03/18/08) Timothy R.B. Johnson, M.D., chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been named the new president of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He assumed the office on March 7 and will serve a one-year term.
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Women’s Health Program presents 3 April events
(03/14/08) The Women’s Health Program of the University of Michigan Health System will present three events in April that highlight a variety of health issues faced by women. One event features the nationally renowned co-author of the "Our Bodies Ourselves" books. One event is presented in Spanish. And the third addresses fibromyalgia and chronic pain.
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Series addresses health needs of minority women
(01/22/08) The University of Michigan Health System Women’s Health Program has expanded its Women’s Health Seminar Series to offer seminars focused on the health needs of women of color and minority women. The first session is Feb. 28, and the second session - which will be conducted in Spanish - is April 6.
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Labels like ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ on test results affect patients’ decisions
(11/05/07) Patients whose physicians place labels on their test results - such as normal or abnormal, positive or negative - are inclined to make different decisions about their health care than those who receive the same results solely in terms of numbers and other quantifiable measures, according to a new study.
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Ovarian cancer: The not-so-silent killer
(09/05/07) Advocates and researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center hope Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, which is September, will get people talking about ovarian cancer. What’s there to say? Start with these eight things you need to know.
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$6M grant to fund research on prolapse, incontinence
(08/16/07) A group of researchers from the University of Michigan Health System has been awarded a $6 million federal grant to study the serious injuries that afflict millions of women as a result of childbirth. More than 300,000 women require surgery each year for problems such as incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse that arise from injuries sustained during vaginal birth.
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Lights, Action, Camera! World Robotic Gyn Symposium set to begin
(04/12/07) Three live robot-assisted telesurgeries are highlights at the 2007 World Robotic Gyn Symposium, April 13-14 at Palmer Commons on the U-M campus. The symposium is hosted by the U-M Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Arnold P. Advincula, M.D., FACOG, FACS, will be the course director, and other leading faculty in the field also will participate.
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Lack of control over work hours leads to physician burnout
(04/10/07) A new national survey of physicians has found that a lack of control of their work hours and schedule often leads to burnout, while many other difficult issues that physicians face do not seem to diminish their career satisfaction.
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Hope for ending the pain, infertility of endometriosis?
(04/02/07) An ongoing U-M Health System study is looking at the use of a common diabetes medication, rosiglitzaone, to treat endometriosis. Use of the drug would allow women with endometriosis to be treated without compromising their future fertility.
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