In the past, these women had to choose between fertility and survival, but now, with new surgical techniques and therapies, many options are now available.

Planning your pregnancy can help you make wise choices that will benefit both you and your baby. Many women don't know they are pregnant until several weeks after they have conceived. These early weeks are key for your baby. During those early weeks, your health and nutrition can affect your baby's growth.

Age can determine the way you go about preventing and diagnosing breast cancer. These guidelines are a good starting point.

"From hysterectomy to urinary incontinence procedures, minimally invasive surgery is available for most female health problems." -Robert A. Wood M.D., FACOG Mobile ObGyn, P.C.

Cervical Cancer Screening: Testing Can Start Later And Occur Less Often Under New ACOG Recommendations

First Choice for the Active Female
Dr. Robert Wood, Mobile Ob-Gyn, P.C.
If you’ve ever been told that you are a candidate for a hysterectomy because of persistent and heavy bleeding or painful symptomatic fibroids, then the Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy (LSH) is good news for you.

This year alone, over 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Thankfully in the past decade, the number of deaths attributed to this disease have decreased due to early detection.

You are 28 weeks pregnant. Your health care provider has just told you that you have gestational diabetes mellitus. Should you be concerned?

Recently I had a pelvic ultrasound which showed a cyst with septated nodule on it. My mother developed ovarian cancer in her seventies, and I had a hysterectomy 19 years ago. My question is: Is laproscopic surgery possible to remove ovaries (drain the cyst), or will i have to undergo conventional surgery?

What is a calcified tumor? Can fibroids be calcified?