Routine weighing in pregnancy.

Clinician's Attitudes to the Introduction of Routine Weighing in Pregnancy

Background. Excessive gestational weight gain poses significant short- and long-term health risks to both mother and baby. Professional bodies and health services increasingly recommend greater attention be paid to weight gain in pregnancy. A large Australian tertiary maternity hospital plans to facilitate the (re)introduction of routine weighing of all women at every antenatal visit. Objective...

Routine weighing of women during pregnancy-is it time to change current practice?

Psychotropics in pregnancy: weighing the risks.

With increase in the use of newer psychotropics, there is a growing concern in relation to the teratogenicity. Unfortunately, it is not possible to carry out prospective studies in pregnant women and as a result physicians caring for such patients have to rely on case reports, case series, and retrospective studies. Available evidence shows that the safety of psychotropics in pregnancy is still...

Managing bipolar disorder during pregnancy: weighing the risks and benefits.

BACKGROUND Challenges for the clinical management of bipolar disorder (BD) during pregnancy are multiple and complex and include competing risks to mother and offspring. METHOD We reviewed recent research findings on the course of BD during pregnancy and postpartum, as well as reproductive safety data on the major mood stabilizers. RESULTS Pregnancy, and especially the postpartum period, ar...

Mammography, routine ultrasonography in pregnancy, and PSA screenings in Italy.

OBJECTIVE To present current scientific statements and practice on mammography, ultrasonography in pregnancy, and PSA within the Italian National Health Service (NHS). METHODS Information on the three screenings was found in several position papers prepared by working groups at national and regional levels. RESULTS For mammography the adjusted mortality rate for breast cancer increased in t...