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This week there were 2 articles in the New England Journal of Medicine that explored the link between postmenopausal hormone use and heart disease. The first article was the final analysis of the Prempro® arm of the WHI.
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Daily administration of a low dose oral birth control pill results in significantly fewer bleeding days.
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Only 5% of white women and 0.6% of black women are potential candidates for tamoxifen chemoprevention.
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Port-site metastasis after laparoscopic surgery during chemotherapy, or when adequate chemotherapy has been given, is usually associated with poor outcome.
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Intraperitoneal chromic phosphate did not decrease the risk of relapse or improve survival for patients with stage III epithelial ovarian cancer after a negative second-look surgery.
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Compared to histopathology, visual diagnosis of PID is neither accurate nor reproducible.
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Vessey, Painter, and Yeates from the University of Oxford used the prospective cohort of women enrolled in the Oxford Family Planning Association Study to assess mortality in users and nonusers of oral contraceptives.
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Of 26 mechanically ventilated patients, 22 developed bacterial lower respiratory tract colonization, and in 15 patients anaerobes were recovered; 2 of 5 patients diagnosed with ventilator-associated pneumonia had anaerobes present in sufficient quantity to suggest that they were considered pathogenic.
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