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In this issue: Calcium supplements and MI; birth control pills and VTE; ACE inhibitors and breast cancer risk; spending on pharmaceuticals; and FDA actions.
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When HIV is not diagnosed until women go into labor, their infants usually are treated soon after birth with the antiretroviral drug zidovudine to prevent infant infection.
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Amphora, under development by Evofem of San Diego, is a bioadhesive acid-buffering gel that coats the vaginal wall and cervix. Amphora helps maintain a woman's natural pH level between 3.8 and 4.2.
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Trichomoniasis is the most common curable sexually transmitted infection (STI) in young, sexually active women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 7.4 million new cases occur each year in U.S. women and men.
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Four hundred thousand (1.6% of U.S. adolescents) experience serious physical and/or sexual dating violence each year.
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Since results of the 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report suggested that use of menopausal hormone therapy increases risk of coronary heart disease, science has examined the timing of therapy initiation on safe use of such treatment.
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Is your facility participating in National HIV Testing Day on June 27? If not, you may be missing an important community outreach opportunity to help people learn their HIV status.
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The investigators prospectively enrolled and followed a cohort of 97 teens before and six, 12, and 18 months after starting DMPA.
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Rethinking Postmenopausal HRT; The Pistachio Diet for Erectile Dysfunction; Vitamin D and Hypertension; Bromocriptine for Type 2 Diabetes; Amitriptyline vs Duloxetine for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain; Testosterone Replacement in Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome
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Patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) should be administered dual anti-platelet therapy with aspirin and a thienopyridine, such as clopidogrel. However, some patients are subsequently found to have left main (LM) or multivessel disease (MVD) and require coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
