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It is unclear how many practitioners around the world use routine episiotomy today as a way to avoid third and fourth degree lacerations. There certainly was a period of time when episiotomy was a routine practice in nulliparas.
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Over the last five years, there has been an increased emphasis on screening for aneuploidy, in part due to the ACOG endorsement of the concept of offering nuchal translucency (NT) and biochemical screening to all pregnant patients, and not just those of advanced maternal age (AMA).
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In This Issue: FDA drug approval to change? Urinary incontinence in women; how metabolism of certain drugs can be predicted by genetic analysis; bowel preps may compromise renal function especially in the elderly according to a new study; FDA Actions.
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The principal purpose of this clinical study was to evaluate the efficacy of gemcitabine relative to a clinical standard therapy, pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) in women with ovarian cancer relapsing within a year of primary treatments.
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Sentinel node localization and sampling has become a standard practice in the evaluation of regional nodal status for patients with breast cancer and cutaneous melanoma.
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One hundred and twenty subjects with symptoms of idiopathic detrusor overactivity (OAB) were recruited to evaluate the efficacy of reflexology compared to nonspecific foot massage.
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In a previous Clinical Alert, the risk of uterine rupture in patients attempting vaginal birth after cesarean sections (VBACs) was addressed when it appeared that there was a distinct downturn in the amount of VBACs being done in the USA.
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The Women's Health Initiative investigators reported health outcomes at 3 years after the estrogen-progestin arm of the clinical trial was canceled.
