Dr. Richard F Ford MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
617 23rd St Suite 415 Ashland KY, 41101About
Dr. Richard Ford is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Ashland, KY. Dr. Ford specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Ford can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Ford can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
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Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Acyclovir in chickenpox.
- Normative data of hemoglobin concentration and free erythrocyte protoporphyrin in a private pediatric practice: a 1990 update.
- New medical standards for Virginia's high school athletes.
- Prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections in girls.
- Prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections in girls.
- Normative data of hemoglobin concentration and free erythrocyte protoporphyrin in a private pediatric practice.
- Three-day therapy of lower urinary tract infections with nitrofurantoin macrocrystals: a randomized clinical trial.
- Morbidity in breast-fed and artifically fed infants.
- Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to anti-HPA-1b (PLA2)(Zwb). A case report and review.
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