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How many times have you prescribed oral contraceptives (OCs) for a woman at one visit, only to find that she has discontinued the method by the next exam due to financial inability to cover her insurance copay on the pill pack?
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Alert your patients of a counterfeit form of emergency contraception (EC), labeled as Evital. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning on the drug.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added a "black box" warning in 2004 to the contraceptive injection depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA, Depo-Provera, Pfizer, New York City; Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Injectable Suspension USP, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, North Wales, PA) advising that prolonged use might result in bone mineral density loss.
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Field test results of a integrated microfluidic-based diagnostic device indicate that the potential "lab-on-a-chip" might be able to perform complex laboratory assays in a simple, convenient manner.
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Current American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Guidelines recommend withholding non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) from patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction (MI) and substitution of another analgesic such as acetaminophen. If NSAID therapy is unavoidable, the guidelines recommend the shortest duration possible.
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This single-center, double-blind, randomized, controlled crossover trial demonstrated that administration of 100% oxygen to stable patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome leads to decreased minute ventilation, increasing dead-space to tidal volume ratio, and worsening hypercapnia.
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With the advent of new vaccines, the incidence of bacterial meningitis has declined, particularly in children, but the mortality rate has remained the same.
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Proton pump inhibitor use in clopidogrel-treated post-percutaneous coronary intervention patients was not associated with an increased risk of all-cause death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, repeat revascularization, or major adverse cardiovascular events.
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In a population-based study using hospital discharge diagnosis codes, patients with sleep apnea who underwent knee arthroplasty or open abdominal procedures were more likely to require invasive mechanical ventilation and to be diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia or ARDS than were matched patients without sleep apnea. Knee-replacement patients, but not those undergoing laparotomy, also were more likely to be diagnosed with pulmonary embolism.
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This case-driven discussion of microscopic hematuria includes important guidelines, definitions, and reminders to aid the clinician in managing this common finding.
