Are You Ready for Pregnancy? Jefferson Doctors offer Preconceptional Counseling
(Published: 10-27-06) Preconceptional Counseling--a new program for women who are considering becoming pregnant--is being
offered by the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University.
Jefferson Researchers Find Education is an Effective Tool in Reducing Episiotomies
(Published: 08-18-06) A study in the August issue of The Journal of Reproductive Medicine by physicians at Thomas Jefferson
University in Philadelphia found that episiotomy rates may be effectively reduced through physician education and documentation
of procedure indication.
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Alternative treatments for fibroids may preserve fertility
(Published: 12-31-2006, Courier-Post) Having children is a joy Sonya McDuffie always felt she'd like to experience when the
time was right. But when she suddenly began looking as if she were about to give birth, McDuffie knew something was out of
order with her body.
At the Jefferson Fibroid Center, she learned of a new combination procedure for the removal of fibroid tumors that may preserve
a woman's ability to bear children, which was unlikely with previous removal methods.
The procedures, which combined uterine fibroid embolization and myomectomy a month apart, are safer than either of those operations
used independently.
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Jefferson Obstetrician Writes New Guide for Mothers-to-Be: The Birth That’s Right for You
(Published: 02-28-2006) In an ideal situation, happiness overwhelms the senses when a woman learns the news that she is pregnant.
With that discovery, she finds herself looking at baby clothes, wondering if it’s a boy or a girl. As the due date grows near,
she thinks more and more about how the baby will actually be born and wonders “Is there a right way to give birth?”
U.S.News & World Report this year named Jefferson University Hospital as among the best in the nation in gynecology.