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Clinically significant disparities exist in the quality of ovarian cancer care delivered and in overall survival along both racial and socioeconomic status.
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A recent study comparing patients having had loop electrosurgical excision procedures with those who had punch biopsies alone or Pap smears only has shown no differences in cesarean rates between groups.
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A Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts reduced the incidence of major cardiovascular events in a large, multicenter, randomized study of high-risk women and men conducted in Spain.
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Bacteria were present on the cell phones of all hospital clinicians studied, with potentially pathogenic microorganisms isolated from 29% of them. Contamination with pathogens was found more commonly with smart phones than with non-smart phones, and by multivariable analysis no other factor was associated with this difference.
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A strategy of annual screening of blood pressure was as sensitive and more specific than the usual practice of measuring it at every office visit.
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Whats the Durability of Lifestyle Change in Type 2 Diabetes?; Perimenstrual Asthma: A High-Risk Phenotype; Risk of New Onset Diabetes with Statins
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A second ezetimbe/statin combination has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of hyperlipidemia. Ezetimibe is now combined with atorvastatin and is marketed by Merck & Co. as Liptruzet.
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Exercise, both aerobic as well as stretching and strengthening, improves motor function and gait in patients with Parkinsons disease.