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Lumbar Disk Herniation: Is Surgical Treatment Superior to Conservative Management?; Rimonabant: An Answer to Overweight in Diabetes?; Renin Inhibitors: A new Class of Antihypertensive Agents; Is There a Link between Coffee and Diabetes?; Is it Time to Start Screening for Lung Cancer?; Can Ramipril Prevent Progression from Pre-Diabetes to Diabetes?
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Lacey and colleagues from the National Cancer Institute reported the results of postmenopausal hormone exposure in a cohort study with 214 cases of ovarian cancer.1 The over-all cohort of 97,368 women constituted the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
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Drug Labels A Prescription for Misunderstanding?; Osteonecrosis of the Jaw New Side-Effect to Bisphosphate Use; Beta-Blockers and Depression Unlinked?; FDA Actions
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Kahlenborn and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of case-control studies published after 1979 that focused on the use of oral contraceptives and the risk of premenopausal breast cancer.
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The resection of tumor nodules (or cytoreduction) before primary chemotherapy has been linked closely with survival in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer. Chi and colleagues set out to evaluate the merits of cytoreduction completeness in a homogeneous cohort of ovarian cancer patients with bulky metastatic disease.
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The lead paper in the November issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology should stimulate lively discussion regarding the counseling of patients of advanced maternal age (AMA), and, if taken at face value, could impact the field of prenatal diagnosis, in general.
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Clostridium difficile diarrhea and colitis have now emerged as common nosocomial infections in hospitals throughout the developed world. Alarmingly, recent epidemiological studies in ambulatory settings have documented C. difficile infection in both adults and children who lack the usual risk factors of prior antibiotic use or hospitalization.
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Given its lack of benefit, possible harms, and expense, magnesium sulfate should not be used for tocolysis.
