This year, two faculty members in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center were recognized for their outstanding patient care by NewYork-Presbyterian.
Women who become pregnant through IVF have an 80% higher risk for spontaneous preterm birth before both 37 and 34 weeks gestation, compared with those who conceived naturally.
With the recent politicization of reproductive rights and fears about the defunding of Planned Parenthood, words such as “abortion” and even “sex” remain controversial.
NPR and ProPublica convened a diverse panel of experts including Columbia's Dr. Mary D'Alton to discuss what the health care system can do to protect more women from harm.
The first oral treatment for women with the common condition of uterine fibroids could be available as soon as summer 2018, with two other medications in the pipeline.
Giving birth to her first child at home without medication was a foregone conclusion for Margaret Nichols. Pain would yield to will, and that would be that.
