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In an intent-to-treat analysis, the use of conjugated equine estrogen combined with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate by menopausal women increased the hazard ratio of invasive breast cancer to 1.24.
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The Women's Health Initiatives was halted a year ago, but fallout
from this landmark study continues. The study was designed to identify
the risks or benefits of estrogen plus progesterone vs placebo in
healthy postmenopausal women.
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This review will provide an overview of SARS for the primary care physician, including epidemiology, etiology, review of the clinical and laboratory features as well as diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of SARS.
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Influenza Vaccination and Reduction in Hospitalizations; Screening Men
for Prostate and Colorectal Cancer; Weight Loss in CHF and Treatment
with ACE-I; Impaired Fasting Glucose vs Impaired Glucose Tolerance;
Risk Stratification in Long-QT Syndrome; EBCT, Motivation, Behavioral
Change, and Cardiovascular Risk Profile
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What is your clinics protocol when it comes to emergency contraception (EC)? New research indicates that because the Yuzpe EC regimen of combined oral contraceptives (OCs) is at least partially effective when started up to 120 hours after unprotected intercourse, current protocols may be too restrictive.1
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Frequent menstruation is a relatively new biologic state that has emerged as societies have evolved from hunting and gathering to industrialization.
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At the end of May, President Bush signed into law the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which is sweeping legislation designed to provide relief for HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean and authorizing funding of up to $15 billion over five years.
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How did this happen? asks the woman sitting in your office as you share the news from the pregnancy test. I was using birth control.
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A 13-year-old female sits in your exam room. On her initial gynecologic exam at age 12, she did not indicate that she was sexually active.