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Hospital inpatients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are isolated from other patients to reduce the risk of colonizing other patients or visitors, but how does an outpatient surgery program isolate a patient when there often is a shortage of space and a need to move many patients through a single area in a short time?
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These next two issues of Emergency Medicine Reports will cover many of the complications and problems that may cause the pregnant woman to come see you. Part I will focus on miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, gestational trophoblastic disease, and venous thromboembolic states. Part II will discuss hypertensive disorders, amniotic fluid embolism, and late pregnancy bleeding.
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Of note, this publication is a review article and not original science. The use of and possible indications for Computed Tomography (CT) scans have been rapidly growing since its introduction, particularly in the area of adult screening (ie, virtual colonoscopy, CT whole-body screening).
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Michels and colleagues from the Nurses' Health Study searched for a link between the incidence of breast cancer and either induced or spontaneous abortions in their prospective cohort of 105,716 women.
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In this Danish study, 415 women who had undergone hysterectomy between 1998 and 2000 responded to the same questionnaire related to incontinence both in September 2001 and also in January 2005.
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Years ago investigators attempted to use a form of progesteronedelalutinto prevent PTL. However, since there was no real proof of its benefit, progesterone was relegated to the "been there, done that" bin for many years until the concept was resurrected in the seminal paper published in 2003 by Meis et al.
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In this issue: Rosiglitazone (Avandia) implicated in yet another study; Prilosec and Nexium not associated with cardiac events; Anastrozole (Arimidex) shown more effective than tamoxifen for treatment of early-stage breast cancer; antibiotics show no effect on sinusitis; FDA actions.
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Kost and colleagues provide updated contraceptive failure rates derived from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth.
