The Happy Vagina shines a light on both the unique and sometimes awkward facts about everything gynaecological, creating an open dialogue for all sexes and generations.
A comprehensive, evidence-based guide to all aspects of operative vaginal birth, accompanying the RCOG Operative Birth Simulation Training (ROBuST) course.
A new edition of the proven guide to providing emergency care for mothers-to-be in acute medical distress Now in its sixth edition, Critical Care Obstetrics offers an authoritative guide to what might go seriously wrong with a pregnancy and delivery and explains how to manage grave complications.
Supported by the latest scientific data, this book serves as a guide to the clinical assessment of women's health during the second half of life (post-reproductive years), including approaches to the management of the most frequent age-related diseases and disorders and the most recent advances in treatment.
Screening programmes involve the systematic offer of testing for populations or groups of apparently healthy people to identify individuals who may be at future risk of a particular medical condition or disease, with the aim of offering intervention to reduce their risk.
This practical handbook provides detailed guidelines on prescribing drugs in all classes and for a wide variety of diseases and disorders during pregnancy, with numerous boxes and tables to assist understanding.
Growing numbers of women who experience pregnancy loss of all kinds - from early spontaneous miscarriage to stillbirth - seek help from practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in their recovery and preparation for future pregnancy.
In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of the offspring.
Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) is now well established as a valuable treatment option for patients wishing to start or continue a family, for a range of indications from advanced maternal age to high risk of transmitting inherited disease.
A working knowledge of the basic sciences that underpin mechanisms of disease and the body's response is widely recognised to be a critical part of urological training.
Novel Approaches into the Origins of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Fetal Physiology Foundation Over the past two decades, autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder that is defined by behavior and was once believed to be rare, became recognized in increasing numbers of children and recently received distinction as an "e;epidemic"e; [1].
Midwives are encountering more and more women whose pregnancies are complicated by medical conditions, including cardiac disease, obesity and diabetes.
Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer provides an up-to-date resource of the role of hormone receptors in breast cancer written in depth for both the basic molecular academic researcher and translational scientist.
This practical book provides current and effective evaluation and treatment options currently available for the full spectrum of conditions affecting women.
Nursing and midwifery students are required to communicate in writing in a variety of forms, for a variety of potential audiences including their colleagues, allied health professionals, administrators and, most importantly, their patients and the public.
Published on behalf of the British Menopause Society, this is a practical and sensitive collection of articles on common sexual health issues which concern menopausal women and their partners.
* A compact, quick reference revised and expanded with practical, clear illustrations* Provides classification, clinical findings, pathophysiology, lab findings, differential diagnosis, complications, prevention, treatment and prognosis for many ob-gyn problems* Explains drug therapy, anesthesia and surgical procedures
Presenting an overview of the current understanding of the pathophysiology of PCOS and a paradigm for the clinical evaluation and management of the disorder, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome is written in an easy to digest, concise format that, with bulleted key points introducing each chapter, is suitable for the trainee and the busy clinician.
This reference provides an authoritative overview of the role of ultrasonography and MR imaging technologies in the examination and assessment of the central nervous system of the fetus and neonate.
THE CLASSIC CHILDBIRTH HANDBOOK--COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED IN FULL COLOREdition after acclaimed edition, Oxorn-Foote Human Labor & Birth has provided the most comprehensive, yet accessible overview of obstetrics available.
Assess your comprehension and retention of Williams Obstetrics, Twenty-Fifth Edition with the only study guide keyed to that acclaimed textHere's why this is the ultimate obstetrics study guide:*More than 2,000 evidence-based, multiple-choice questions carefully selected to highlight key points from each chapter of Williams Obstetrics, Twenty-Fifth Edition*The answer key guides you to the pages in Williams Obstetrics, Twenty-Fifth Edition, that contain the explanations and further discussion --- the perfect way to strengthen your weak areas*More than 400 color images are included as question material*Organization follows the chronology of pregnancy, from Maternal and Fetal Anatomy and Physiology to Labor and Delivery, with additional sections on the Fetus and Newborn, Puerperium, Obstetric Complications, and Medical and Surgical Complications*Clinical case questions give your knowledge practical, real-world application
Many psychiatrists, obstetricians, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health care professionals have not been trained to adequately identify psychiatric disorders that present in postpartum women, and yet are often faced with patients expressing mental health symptoms that may lead to serious problems.
This new volume in the Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians series focuses on the practical clinical impact of problems linked to infertility, discussing topics such as luteal support in ART cycles, ovulation induction using pulsatile administration of GnRH, how to deal with the metabolic changes in PCOS, treatment to restore fertility in endometriosis and how to improve implantation, which are common aspects of daily clinical practice.
This book addresses the reality of delivering gynaecological care in the 21st century, and looks at the developments that are currently taking place in the field.
