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Herpes Simplex Virus 2 Meningitis in Adults
The incidence of herpes simplex virus 2 meningitis in adults in Denmark over a six-year period was 0.7/100,000 population per year, with 91% of cases occurring in the absence of immunocompromise.
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CABG Wins Again for Multivessel Disease
Fractional flow reserve-guided percutaneous coronary intervention failed to meet noninferiority guidelines vs. coronary artery bypass grafting.
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Coronary Calcium Score Zero: Are You Home Free?
Among those with a coronary calcium score of 0 after a median follow-up of 16 years, current cigarette smoking, diabetes, and hypertension were independently associated with the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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Doctors Must Act on Risk to Reproductive Rights
The abortion crisis that a family planning physician warned about several years ago is here as state legislatures have passed many laws that would stop abortions and place women at risk of injury or death during pregnancy. -
Suggestions for Sexual and Contraceptive Education for People with Disabilities
Clinicians can do more to improve contraceptive and sexual education for patients with disabilities, including youth. A big first step is acknowledging patients are interested in healthy intimate relationships, and sometimes also in preventing pregnancy. -
Sex Education, Counseling Needed for Minor Patients with Disabilities
Disparities in contraceptive use between women with and without disabilities are partly due to limited access to formal sex education in communities and schools, researchers suggest. Physicians could fill this gap, but they often are hindered by their own biases that these patients will not have sex. -
People with Disabilities Often Left Out of Contraceptive Conversation
Several recent studies revealed that women with disabilities often receive inadequate or no reproductive and sexual health counseling and care, partly because healthcare professionals do not ask. -
Study: IUDs Are as Effective as Tubal Ligation — and Safer
Researchers made an astonishing discovery when comparing the safety and effectiveness of IUDs and tubal ligation: The rates of pregnancy were similar, and IUDs were much safer. Instead of finding pregnancy rates on the order of one in every 1,000 or 10,000 tubal ligation procedures, they found a rate of 2.64 per 100 procedures. For placement of levonorgestrel IUDs the rate was lower — 2.4 per 100 procedures. -
Gastrointestinal Bleeding on Anticoagulants: Predicting Colorectal Cancer in Afib Patients
A large Danish registry study showed that in atrial fibrillation patients on oral anticoagulants and who experience a lower gastrointestinal bleed (LGIB), the incidence of a subsequent diagnosis of colorectal cancer is significantly higher than in those without a LGIB.
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Yoga for the Mind, Body, and Autonomic Nervous System
Randomization to yoga in addition to standard care to treat vasovagal syncope led to better outcomes than standard care alone, with reductions in syncopal and presyncopal events and improvement in quality of life scores at one year.