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After years of legal wrangling, the FDA has approved loratadine (Claritin, Schering-Plough) as an over-the-counter (OTC) product for the treatment of seasonal rhinitis.
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The Womens Angiographic Vitamin and Estrogen (WAVE) Trial was a randomized, controlled secondary prevention study. This study enrolled 423 postmenopausal women with coronary atherosclerosis already established at baseline by angiography.
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Synopsis: The hazard ratio for death from breast cancer for patients with high total cyclin E levels as compared with those with low total cyclin E levels was 13.3 to about 8 times as high as the hazard ratios associated with other independent clinical and pathological risk factors, including axillary node status.
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Synopsis: Involvement of a gynecologic oncologist at the time of primary surgery for endometrial cancer was associated with comparable outcomes in both the university and community hospital setting.
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Synopsis: Sertraline was significantly more effective than placebo when taken during the luteal phase for PMDD.
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Synopsis: Women with pregestational diabetes or gestational diabetes plus fasting hyperglycemia have a 3- to 4-fold increased risk of infant malformations, whereas women with mild gestational diabetes have malformation rates no different than the general nondiabetic obstetric population.
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The quintet of abdominal obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, abnormal glucose metabolism, and coagulopathy has been called syndrome X or metabolic syndrome. Some have referred to this grouping as the insulin resistance syndrome, the obesity dyslipidemia syndrome, and the deadly quartet.
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The primary care physician who cares for couples in their childbearing years should encourage women and their partners to receive preconception care. The physician can enhance this opportunity by adopting a preconception focus during annual medical exams and asking the patients about their conception plans.
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FDA Approves Generic Version of AstraZenecas Prilosec; Pegasys
Approved To Treat Hepatitis C; HRT Reduces Alzheimers Risk, Study
Says; Heparin Plus Alteplase More Effective; Digoxin Effects Differ By
Sex; McClellan Named FDA Commissioner; FDA Actions
