The UNC School of Dentistry’s Department of Pediatric Dentistry and School of Medicine’s Department of OB-GYN have launched the website for their Prenatal Oral Health Program. The program is designed to educate with resources for medical and dental health care providers as well as expectant mothers on the principles of prenatal oral health.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill receives $8 million grant to improve safe motherhood in Malawi.
Dr. Anne Steiner was a guest on the popular talk radio show “The Takeaway” talking about fertility for women over 35 years of age.
Landon Dupree was partially delivered, and while still attached to his mother, a surgeon removed a cyst in his lung.
The latest research has found that suboptimal breastfeeding rates in the US are harmful to women’s health.
Effective July 1, 2013 UNC Women’s Care will open new clinics at the UNC Hillsborough campus.
Effective July 1, 2013 there will be some exciting changes for UNC Women’s Care.
The patient presented here underwent laparoscopic myomectomy for fibroids that were contributing to her heavy bleeding. She also had a history of recurrent pregnancy loss due to cervical insufficiency and thus underwent concomitant cerclage placement.
This is not a very common procedure, but occasionally when a woman has pain associated with the uterus and hysterectomy isn’t appropriate, we perform an operation that interrupts the nerves that carry pain signals from the uterus to the spinal cord.
In very rare cases, a pregnancy can implant in places it’s not supposed to, known as an ectopic pregnancy. In this case, the pregnancy started growing in her cesarean scar. The condition was treated with medicine, but we needed to go in and remove the old pregnancy tissue and revise her cesarean scar to prevent this from happening again.