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These New Jersey authors hypothesized that attire and patient satisfaction would be unrelated. For 3 months, full-time faculty, both generalists and subspecialists, were randomly assigned to different attire, ie, business attire, casual clothing, or scrubs.
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First Antihypertensive Drug Approved in Last 10 Years: Aliskiren; Alternate Treatment for Osteoporosis; Roche's Oseltamivir: Scrutiny, Bird Flu, and New Drug Applications; FDA Actions
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In this retrospective study, the authors gleaned hospital records to identify cases of adnexal torsion at their hospital in Israel between 2002 and 2006. Sixty-two cases were found appropriate for the study.
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It has not been clear as to whether a cervical conization truly predisposes a patient to preterm birth (PTB). The authors of this enlightening paper set out to see if the interval between the procedure and subsequent conception had any effect on the incidence of PTB.
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Legro and colleagues, reporting for the Cooperative Multicenter Reproductive Medicine Network, presented the results of a multicenter, randomized trial indicating that clomiphene is superior to metformin in achieving live births in women with the polycystic ovary (PCO) syndrome.
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This retrospective chart review covered all patients with vulvodynia treated with gabapentin at a single facility between January of 2002 and September of 2004.
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Clinicians are typically introduced to the academic phenomenon of borderline personality disorder (BPD) during their psychiatric rotations in medical school.
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Aggressive statin therapy is associated with slowed progression and even regression of atherosclerosis.
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While two advanced trials have been closed for one microbicide candidate for HIV prevention in women, researchers are pressing forward in examining other contenders that may prove safe and effective in the fight against the AIDS epidemic.
