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What is your practice when it comes to routinely screening teen-age girls for chlamydia? If you arent performing such testing, you are missing a prime opportunity to reduce the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States.
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What if you could simplify your current protocol for emergency contraception (EC)? Results of a recent international multicenter randomized trial indicate that three effective options exist for emergency contraception.
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How many of your patients have insurance coverage for contraceptives? Get ready to see more of them, as 20 states have passed legislation requiring health plans to pay for contraceptive products.
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Promote womens health issues during the annual observance of National Womens Health Week, scheduled this year for May 11-17. Use the following web sites as resources.
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Editors Note: The following summaries represent a selection of papers from among those presented at the 42nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 27-30, 2002, in San Diego and the 40th annual meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), held October 24-27, 2002, in Chicago.
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FluMist Recommended for FDA Approval; Britain Extends Pet Travel to United States; Nipah Confirmed in Bangladesh.
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The FDA has approved a new anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 68-year-old man admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for a drug overdose. In view of his ECG, what vital sign needs to be checked? How many ECG findings consistent with this patients clinical condition can you identify?
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Continuing smokers from the Lung Health Study 1 followed for a period of 11 years demonstrated a greater decline in lung function when compared to sustained quitters.
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SSRIs increase the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and this effect is potentiated by concomitant NSAID or aspirin use.
