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Check out the following Internet resources for more information on hormone therapy.
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Family planning clinicians have found their care of postmenopausal women has changed dramatically since the July 2002 cessation of the estrogen/progestin arm of the Womens Health Initiative (WHI). The estrogen/progestin arm of the landmark study was halted after findings showed that the overall health risk, particularly of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer, from taking estrogens with progestin was greater than the benefits of lowering the risk of colon cancer and bone fractures.
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Enter abstracts for ARHP annual conference; New payment options announced for Mirena
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Whats the impact of concomitant medications on combined oral contraceptives (OCs)?
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Combined oral contraceptives (OCs) help decrease a womans risk for epithelial ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer, reduce her risk of pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy, and lessen menstrual cramps and pain. But what is their impact on bone mineral density (BMD)?
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Your practice includes confidential care for adolescents, including provision of contraceptives and testing/treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). But are your office staff communicating the confidentiality of this information correctly to prospective teen patients? If they are not, adolescents may fail to access these important services.
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KS Fails to Respond to Cidofovir; Acyclovir & Renal Dysfunction; Broad-Range Bacterial PCR in Meningitis; Why is BCG Less Virulent than MTb?.
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Despite many years of practice, a recent questionnaire about therapeutic drug monitoring of vancomycin revealed marked variability and a lack of consensus regarding postdose assay sampling times, target ranges, and what constituted a toxic level.
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Noroviruses are a frequent cause of acute gastroenteritis. During the last 2 months of 2002 in a single health district in Washington state, 10 outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis attributable to norovirus were investigated. These events affected 354 patients in 6 long-term care facilities, a community hospital, an outpatient clinic, and the county jail.
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