Obesity and Tobacco Cessation Toolkits: Practical Tips and Tools to Save Lives.

Both obesity and smoking are public health burdens that together contribute to approximately one third of the deaths annually in the United States. In 2015, under the direction of Dr. Mark DeFrancesco, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists convened two workgroups with the purpose of creating toolkits that bring together information that the obstetrician-gynecologist can use to address these preventable health problems.

Molecular characterization of uterine fibroids and its implication for underlying mechanisms of pathogenesis.

Objective: To identify genes involved in fibroid development by performing global expression profiling on tissues of normal myometrium and uterine leiomyoma origin using Affymetrix HG-U133A GeneChip microarrays.

Design: Whole-genome analysis of mRNA levels in leiomyoma and normal myometrium tissue samples.

Setting: University research laboratory.