Pregnancy Archives - Clinical Advisor

Top January 2023 FDA Approvals

By

Jeanelle Jacobs

January 26, 2023

January FDA approvals include treatments for mood disorders, pertussis in infants, Alzheimer disease, and type 2 diabetes.

Psychiatry Information Center

Case Study: Ethics and Mental Illness in Pregnancy

By

Shinu Kuriakose, DHSc, PA-C

January 23, 2023

A woman is evaluated by psychiatry on postpartum day 2 after staff noticed her talking to the mirror in her room and not showing affection to her newborn child. Case shows ethical decisions made when managing mental illness during pregnancy.

ADHD Information Center

Socioeconomic Disadvantages Explain Maternal Age and ADHD Causal Association

By

Ron Goldberg

January 18, 2023

Researchers examined the relationship between maternal age and childhood ADHD to determine which factors may mediate or confound the association.

Ob/Gyn Information Center

Reforming Institutions, Integrating Health Technology to Address Maternal Mortality Gap

By

Allison Nguyen

January 17, 2023

Experts discuss strategies to reduce the maternal mortality gap by implementing implicit bias training and reevaluating clinical guidelines and algorithms.

Psychiatry Information Center

Experiencing Racism Tied to Doubled Odds of Depression During Pregnancy

January 12, 2023

Authors say respectful maternity care may help address maternal morbidity in Black women.

Infectious Diseases Information Center

Clinicians Address the Resurgence of Syphilis in the United States

By

Tori Rodriquez, MA, LPC, AHC

January 6, 2023

Syphilis diagnoses have continued to accelerate for the past few years due to COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions at sexual health clinics.

Ob/Gyn Information Center

Maternal Mortality Crisis Among Minority Patients in the US

By

Allison Nguyen

December 19, 2022

ACOG experts provide actionable steps to reduce the maternal mortality crisis in the US, particularly among minority populations.

Evidence-Based Medicine

Evidence-Based Medicine: Tracking Fracking, Hypertension During Pregnancy, and Safety of Eye Surgery

By

Alan Ehrlich, MD

December 6, 2022

Dr. Ehrlich reviews the evidence of 3 recent studies that evaluate the risk of fracking and health outcomes in infants, management of hypertension in pregnancy, and cardiac risk of eye surgery.