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Obesity is gaining ground in the United States. Are you prepared to offer women effective options? James Trussell, PhD, professor of economics and public affairs and director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton (NJ) University, reviewed current research at the 2007 Contraceptive Technology conferences to help clinicians select appropriate options.
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When it comes to initiating oral contraceptives (OCs), new research indicates that immediate initiation before start of the next menses improves short-term continuation of pill use.
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If adolescents and young women are not being routinely screened for chlamydia at your facility, it is time to reverse the trend, says the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
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Results from past research studies have investigated a possible relationship between hormonal contraceptive use and HIV acquisition, but understanding remained poor due to inconsistent results and shortfalls in study design.
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A pilot study of human cervical disc transplantation has been shown to be surgically feasible, but requires further investigation.
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MRI is more sensitive than CT for detecting acute ischemia and can detect acute hemorrhage with equal sensitivity to CT.
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A meta-analysis of 18 studies that have examined the usefulness of procalcitonin measurement in the diagnosis of sepsis finds that the diagnostic performance of this measurement is low and that the test cannot reliably distinguish sepsis from other causes of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
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Standard 10-day triple therapy for Helicobacter pylori may result in relatively low eradication rates.