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Newcomb and colleagues reported breast cancer mortality in the Collaborative Breast Cancer Study Cohort, a prospective cohort of 12,269 postmenopausal women from Wisconsin, Massachusetts, or New Hampshire.
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In this issue: Some women with DVT may stop warfarin after six months; Vytorin and cancer; preventing recurrent stroke; and FDA news.
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Fetal fibronectin is now being used in many hospitals to separate out those with preterm contractions (PTCs) who are in true labor from those with contractions who are not (and, therefore, not requiring tocolytics or hospitalization).
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The objective of this study was to examine and compare the clinical behavior and outcome of uterine carcinosarcoma relative to grade 3 endometrioid carcinoma.
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The lift study (Long-Term Intervention on Fractures with Tibolone) was a randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter trial in 22 countries of tibolone, 1.25 mg, given daily over 3 years.
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What often are called "compassionate use" drugs are investigational new drugs (INDs) in later phase trials where the FDA has allowed the sponsor to apply for an individual treatment IND.
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Increasing the possibility of hospital outbreaks via undiagnosed cases, measles infection has hit the United States at epidemic levels this year. More measles cases were reported in the first seven months of 2008 than during the same period in any year since 1996, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Editor's note: Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD is a professor in the departments of anesthesiology and critical care, surgery, and health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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If infection preventionists can work their way out of the current wilderness of change, there is some feeling they may be poised for a leadership role in a health care system becoming painfully aware of the power of prevention.