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Nearly everything boils down to communication. It is a cliche to say that communication is a key skill required to lead an organization and to be an effective in your [...]

Match Day capped a momentous year of major changes in our chosen field because of the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization decision. Of note, it has significantly impacted the [...]

As obstetrics and gynecology providers, we have seen remarkable advancements in 2023, in areas from prenatal obstetrics to intrapartum and postpartum care, and office gynecology and gynecologic oncology. As time [...]

The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 2024 annual meeting was held in Washington, DC, and I took the opportunity to spend some time with a favorite mentor of mine, John T. [...]

The latest United States statistics on stillbirth have been released, reporting an essentially unchanged rate since 2020 for fetal deaths, with 5.7 per 1000 live births and 2.9 per 1000 [...]

Disparities in outcomes-including in obstetrics and gynecology--persist across racial and ethnic lines in part because of social determinants of health (SDOH), which has become an area of interest over the [...]

Advances in technology and access to care over the past few decades have led to a remarkable evolution in determining gestational age and identifying optimal time for delivery. Identifying the [...]

Although leadership in our post-pandemic climate is probably no more challenging than at any other time, it certainly feels that way. Emerging from a period duringwhich routines were upturned, rules [...]

With our cover story focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and the increasing use of ChatGPT, I thought I should ask ChatGPT to write an editorial on AI in obstetrics and [...]

Let's be positive! I had long understood that it takes fewer muscles to smile than frown. However, I recently learned that this may be incorrect, and more muscles are involved [...]

FALLS BRINGS US BACK TO SCHOOL, for many a comforting tradition of order, back-to-school supplies (unbelievably relaxing to many) and new beginnings. For senior medical students and residents, it is [...]

Maternal mortality has long been regarded as a reflection of how important a population considers women and children to be. The rates in the United States have been troubling for [...]

Obstetrics and gynecologists (ob-gyns) are tough. Thrust into the front lines of the pandemic, we were called upon to not only care for patients with COVID-19 but to do so [...]

National awareness months and days span a variety of topics, from celebrated foods (think National Ice Cream Day, National Bagel Day, National Pizza Day) to businesses (free Slurpee at 7-Eleven) [...]

For more than 70 years, vaccination has been a public health strategy for disease mitigation. Even in populations often considered 'vulnerable'--children and pregnant women--vaccination is strongly recommended and commonly embraced. [...]

Last year was a big one for obstetrics and gynecology, with major legal decisions impacting our practice, stacked on reopening from the pandemic. Additionally, several medical advances have been published, [...]

As we approach the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, masking, vaccinations, and a 'new normal' have become commonplace around the world. I am thrilled to see that the vaccines [...]

It has been one hot summer, especially here in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area. We saw a record-breaking streak of consecutive days over 100 [degrees]F and without rain. With the [...]

As we move into yet another surge of COVID-19, the likelihood of remembering what was normal, and if we will 'return' to normal, dims. In the summer months there was [...]

This month we focus on pediatric adolescent gynecologic topics, which are critical to our practices (and our families). It's a growing specialty within our field and often is underappreciated. In [...]

This month, I will share with you an issue I have encountered lately. While I am not advocating anything, I am raising awareness. As a resident physician, I remember how [...]

Rarely a day goes by without a post, article, or email about physician burnout. New variants of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and slow vaccination rates are prolonging the quarantine, and [...]

A major missed opportunity. Decades of effort including development of guidance and implementation by individuals, groups, professional organizations, even the United States Congress, to address and facilitate inclusion of pregnant [...]

We are nearing completion of 365 days of unprecedented chaos, at least for me. Although experts in infectious disease have been thinking about and planning for an infectious disease outbreak [...]

With the beginning of 2021, we are eager for resolution to the pandemic. Although reductions in transmission are evident with social distancing, the optimal methods to make social distancing attractive [...]

What a year 2020 has been! We hope to look back on it and recognize it as an outlier or anomaly--hoping life will at some point return to normal. Even [...]

The impact of hospitalization from COVID-19, especially severe disease, has greatly impacted our health care system--particularly the nursing staff. Strain from medical and home demands, along with furloughs as a [...]

My antepartum rounds reflect the impact of the pandemic - women struggling with substance abuse and mental illness fill the beds. One patient, wearing her designated green hospital gown that [...]

Women's health research continues to be marginalized. To address and reverse this trend requires committed, accountable leadership, inclusion of diversity of thought and critical social science issues, in addition to [...]

In the throes of COVID-19, with cases continuing to increase daily at my hospital, we are now further stressed with the brutal death of George Floyd, an African American whose [...]

As we are now incorporating the new post-COVID-19 'normal' into our routines, I was reflecting on the parallels of the changes that went into play with the identification and management [...]

I am honored and delighted to be writing the first of what I hope will be many editorials for Contemporary OB/GYN. Honored in part due to the legacy of the [...]

As physicians, our goal is to provide appropriate, expert medical care--the highest quality--to our patients. Increasingly, external policies and legislation encroach on our ability to provide this care. Despite recommendations [...]

Because August is National Breastfeeding Month, we are providing you with a cover story on it. At Contemporary OB/GYNF, our editorial meetings include an analysis of what articles are performing [...]

Iapplaud providers for encouraging COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant and lactating women. Recent data published from the V-safe pregnancy registry, v-safe after vaccination health checker surveillance system, and the vaccine Adverse [...]

Attention and accountability are the 2 'A's' that drive change. It's true in medicine, business, even family. If it is not monitored, it is not regarded as important nor will [...]

Many obstetric and gynecologic practices are not based on strong evidence, despite the great strides that we've made in the last several decades in identifying therapies (1) and providing data [...]

Adopting a universal definition of stillbirth and linking the results of a placental examination and autopsy to the fetal death certificate can help us collect the accurate data needed to [...]

The rate of perinatal mortality has fallen significantly in the past 15 years. The trend is expected to continue, with neonatal care advancing and the gestational age at which fetuses [...]

Ob/gyns often ask me vague questions about 'that large study at NICHD.' They want to know if it will be like the old 'Collaborative Perinatal Project.' Have we chosen the [...]