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Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, recently discussed her research on the nuances of HIV risk behavior among women with AHC Media, publisher of Contraceptive Technology Update.
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American women might have another option in emergency contraception (EC) if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) follows the recommendation of its reproductive health panel in approving ulipristal acetate (UPA).
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Morbidities and mortalities among adolescents often are the result of risk-taking behaviors. By tracking behavioral trends, clinicians can provide more tailored education, counseling, and screenings to adolescents.
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A retrospective cohort study was conducted of all children age birth to five years enrolled at a Department of Defense treatment facility between January 1998 and December 2005, who were diagnosed with bacterial enteritis.
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the association between antibacterial medications and selected birth defects. The authors conducted a population-based, multisite, case-control study of women who had pregnancies affected by 1 of more than 30 eligible major birth defects identified via birth defect surveillance programs.
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A critically ill patient, who was a heroin user, was admitted to a hospital in Scotland in December 2009 and was found to be infected with Bacillus anthracis.
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In this issue: Lorcaserin submitted for FDA review, FDA advisory panel votes against phentermine/topiramate, mixed vote on rosiglitazone, advisory panel votes to remove breast cancer indication from bevacizumab labeling, no increase in seizures found with DTaP vaccine, new REMS for quinine.
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You are on duty in the ED when the paramedics bring in a patient from the county jail who had tried to hang himself. When the patient arrives, you are told by the accompanying guard that the patient was found with a tightly twisted bedsheet around his neck and looped over the bedpost of the metal bunkbed.