-
Expect more questions from patients about hormone therapy (HT) with the publication of three reports from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI), the largest randomized controlled trial conducted to date on the drug therapy.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Frequent menstruation is a relatively new biologic state that has emerged as societies have evolved from hunting and gathering to industrialization.
-
Lipid-lowering therapy reduces stroke incidence in coronary patients, especially when total cholesterol level is lowered to less than 232 mg/dL (6.0 mmol/L), which explains the best results being obtained with statins.
-
Computer keyboards may serve as reservoirs for serious nosocomial pathogens.
-
Iontophoresis was more effective than placebo in relieving tennis elbow symptoms in the short term.
-
Even in physician-diagnosed peptic ulcer disease, test-and-treat strategy for H pylori did not reduce costs, and use of acid-reducing medications remained very high.
-
An update on Oregons assisted suicide program since it became legal in 1997.
