by DrRoger | Mar 12, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
The old saying is that nothing’s certain but death and taxes. However, for anyone in academics, the debate over tenure is every bit as predictable. Tuesday March 15th, MUSC Faculty Senate President, Dr. Angela Mudd, has convened a Special Meeting of the Faculty...
by DrRoger | Feb 21, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
This past November, the South Carolina Infant Mortality Rates (IMR) for 2014 were released. Like most of South Carolina’s public health statistics, the results were a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly. By way of clarification, the Infant Mortality Rate...
by DrRoger | Feb 7, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
A scientific poster from the recent Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) reveals that optimal maternal nutrition prevents both preterm birth and serious newborn complications. For the past half-century obstetricians have searched for interventions that...
by DrRoger | Jan 24, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
The coming thing for fertility enhancement is oocyte cryopreservation for career women in their mid-thirties. Using Oncofertility technologies devised for younger women being treated with chemotherapy and irradiation for breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma or...
by DrRoger | Jan 23, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
Cases of severe fetal microcephaly in Brazil have risen from fewer than 150 in 2014 to almost 4,000 in 2015. This surge in an otherwise rare fetal brain malformation has been linked to the Zika virus. The what? Yes, the Zika virus. Concern over this possible...
by DrRoger | Jan 10, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
The only effective and lasting solution to the issue of home birth safety is to understand what is driving women to consider this option. The majority of women choosing home birth understand there is a small but inherently higher risk associated with that decision....
