How to Quit Smoking When You’re Trying to Get Pregnant
The Top 5 Tips for Quitting While Trying to Conceive Smoking is an all too common bad habit for both men and women alike, regardless of age, race or lifestyle. However, the act of [...]
Gestational Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy Gestational diabetes is a condition that develops in women during pregnancy and leads to elevated levels of glucose, or sugar, in the blood. This is due to certain hormones of pregnancy that make your body resistant to insulin. Insulin normally works to help move the glucose in food into the body’s [...]
Announcing a High-Risk Pregnancy: The Do’s and Don’ts
Announcing Your High-Risk Pregnancy Announcing your pregnancy is such an exciting moment. Families become excited at the thought of a new member, friends are thrilled, and you are more than ready to welcome your bundle of joy into the world. However, during a high-risk pregnancy many couples experience feeling of uncertainty when it comes to [...]
Am I High Risk?
High-Risk Pregnancy The physicians at NJPA treat patients who are deemed high risk due to medical or pregnancy complications or risk factors, as well as routine patients who are referred by their OB physicians for our special services. You are in excellent hands at NJPA, where we are home to the top Perinatologists, Perinatal nurses, [...]
Zika Virus and Pregnancy
The Zika Virus On January 15, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a Health Advisory regarding the Zika virus which has now been noted in 14 countries in the Western Hemisphere and continues to spread rapidly. The Zika virus has been implicated as a potential cause for microcephaly, or delayed growth of the [...]
Travel in Pregnancy
Traveling During Pregnancy With the holidays rapidly approaching, it is a good time to discuss travel during pregnancy. For those with uncomplicated, low-risk pregnancies, air travel until 36 weeks is acceptable, though the second trimester (between 14-28 weeks) is probably the most comfortable time. After 36 weeks, most domestic airlines will not allow air travel. [...]
Dr. Leon Smith Honored as Top Doc
Dr. Leon Smith Named "Top Doctor" Dr. Leon G. Smith, Jr. has once again been honored as a “Top Doctor” by New Jersey Monthly. Dr Smith is no newcomer to this award nor to several other highly respected Top Doctors lists such as Castle Connolly, New York Magazine, and Inside Jersey.
Inside Jersey Honors NJPA Physicians as Top Docs
Inside Jersey 2015 Top Docs Inside Jersey, part of NJ Advance Media, has named several NJPA physicians as “Top Doctors” in their just released 2015 Top Docs issue. The NJPA doctors being honored are: Dr. Leon G. Smith, Jr., Dr. Dom A. Terrone, Dr. Wendy B. Warren, and Dr. Edward J. Wolf. NJPA’s dedication to [...]
NJPA’s Dr. O’Brien Saves Toddler on Vacation
Dr. O'Brien Saves Drowning Boy NJPA is proud to honor Dr. O'Brien for his heroic act while on vacation in Wildwood Crest. http://patch.com/new-jersey/longvalley/morris-county-doctor-saves-drowning-boy-3-vacation-resort
Dr. Wolf presents at SMFM Annual Meeting 2015
Dr. Wolf at SMFM Annual Meeting The 35th Annual Pregnancy Meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine was held in San Diego, CA February 2-7, 2015. Dr. Wolf presented his abstract titled “Quantification of cell free fetal DNA in maternal circulation as a marker of adverse pregnancy outcomes”.