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Research Eyes Hormonal Contraceptive Use And Impact on Vitamin D Levels
Women risk having their vitamin D levels fall when they stop using birth control pills or other contraceptives containing estrogen, new research indicates. This finding has clinical implications when counseling women who are planning to conceive and identifying women who may be at risk of deficiency.
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WHO Updates STI Treatment Guidance Due to Growing Antibiotic Resistance
The World Health Organization has issued new guidelines for the treatment of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis in response to the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. According to the international health organization, each year, 131 million people are infected with chlamydia, 78 million are infected with gonorrhea, and 5.6 million are infected with syphilis.
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Deaths From Ovarian Cancer Fall Worldwide Due to Oral Contraceptive Use, Data Show
Deaths from ovarian cancer fell worldwide between 2002 and 2012 and are predicted to continue to decline through 2020 in the United States, European Union, and, to a lesser extent, in Japan, according to newly published research. The primary reason is the use of oral contraceptives and the long-term protection against ovarian cancer that they provide, say researchers.
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LARC Options Expand With New Intrauterine Device
Family planning clinicians are adding another choice to the expanding list of long-acting reversible contraceptive options with the September 2016 FDA approval of the Kyleena 19.5 mg levonorgestrel IUD from Whippany, NJ-based Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. The new IUD is available as of October 2016 by prescription only.
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What If Beats 5 and 8 Had Children?
The easiest way to approach the interpretation of more challenging arrhythmias such as this one is to begin with the part of the tracing that is most evident and save the most difficult part for last.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: water aerobics for overweight and hypertensive women; topicals for atopic dermatitis; removing ticks successfully.
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Etanercept-szzs Injection (Erelzi)
Etanercept-szzs is indicated for moderate to severe active rheumatoid arthritis, moderate to severe active polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, active ankylosing spondylitis, and chronic moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
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Calcium Supplementation and Increased Dementia Risk
In this five-year observational study, women who were taking calcium supplementation and who presented with pre-existing cerebrovascular disease were at higher risk of dementia than women not taking extra calcium.
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Screening for Coronary Artery Disease Is Underused in Heart Failure
In a large retrospective cohort of patients hospitalized for new-onset heart failure, the majority did not receive testing for ischemic heart disease.
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How Much More Physical Activity Helps Patients Avoid Chronic Diseases?
Higher levels of total physical activity are strongly associated with lower risk of five common chronic diseases: breast and bowel cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.