ob-gyn
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Long before becoming ob-gyn to the stars, Aliabadi recalls waking to the sounds of sirens and bombs while growing up in Tehran during the Iranian revolution in 1979.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
"We're already talking about switching over to Misoprostol-only regimens," Dr. Kristyn Brandi, an ob-gyn who serves as the board chair of Physicians for Reproductive Health, told Salon.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2023
One more thing, Kelce’s wife Kylie is pregnant and the couple is bringing their ob-gyn to Arizona just in case.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023
Lisa Harris, an ob-gyn and researcher at the University of Michigan, recalls being paged to the operating room late on a Friday night to treat a pregnant woman who was hemorrhaging uncontrollably.
From Scientific American • Jun. 29, 2022
Our well-intentioned ob-gyn initially accepted the result, failing to recognize that the test’s false positive rate was around 95 percent.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2022
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