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A team of epidemiologists from several institutions in the US performed a case-control study of the association between oral contraceptive use and lobular and ductal breast cancer occurring in young women (under age 44).
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Wilkinson and colleagues from the University of Texas in Galveston analyzed information from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) databank linked to Medicare claims.
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In a study of 82 patients with primary dysmenorrhea who had been randomized to undergoing either LUNA or LUNA + PN, the two groups had comparable results (69% improved in the LUNA group; 73% in the LUNA+PN group) at up to 12 months of follow-up.
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In this issue: Updated Immunization Guidelines from the CDC; Do antivirals have a role in the treatment of Bell's palsy? Topiramate is a promising treatment for alcohol dependence; and FDA Actions.
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A patient deciding to change doctors is not an unusual occurrence; sometimes, the physician doesn't even learn the reason for the change. It's a much more highly charged situation when a physician decides he or she must end a professional relationship with a patient.
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A medical error creates guilt, fear, and loneliness for both the caregiver and the patient and patient's family feelings that can lead each side to withdraw unless efforts are taken by all parties to develop solutions and foster forgiveness.
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A third-year medical student sits with an end-stage lung cancer patient who is in hospice. The patient wants to talk, but not about pain or death or advance directives he wants to know the student's plans for the future.
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Since there have been pandemics and vaccines to fight them, ethicists have wrestled with the question of who should have priority when it comes to distributing vaccine. The federal government has released a draft in which it sets out how health authorities should allocate scarce doses of influenza vaccine in the event of a pandemic.
