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Very little literature or case law exists to shed light on the circumstances that might result in litigation against health care providers for allegedly making false reports of suspected abuse of adult ED patients, according to Edward Monico, MD, JD, assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT.
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The authors performed a descriptive analysis of all cases of desquamative inflammatory vaginitis (DIV), defined as symptomatic vaginitis (discharge, dyspareunia, pruritus, burning, or irritation) associated with vaginal inflammation (such as focal or linear erosions), a vaginal pH higher than 4.5, and saline microscopy showing an increase in parabasal and inflammatory cells in the absence of an infectious etiology (such as trichomonas, candida, or bacterial vaginosis).
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Understanding sexual pain remains limited. with multiple etiologies and lack of evidence-based outcomes research, future investigations should focus on evaluating the intimacy of the couple, the partner relationship, and biomedical sources of pain such as the pelvic floor muscles.
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Uterine leiomyosarcomas (LMS) rarely are suspected preoperatively unless there has been documented rapid growth of the uterus or evidence of extrauterine disease.
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Dealing with a question about certain dietary items in pregnancy sometimes is daunting because often there is no consensus regarding a proper answer.
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Baseline and 6-month data were collected on morbidly obese women who planned to undergo weight reduction surgery.
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Recently Catholic hospitals have received a large amount of media coverage in the news and on the Internet stemming from certain decisions concerning healthcare and ethics.
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