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What are some of your questions when it comes to hormonal contraceptive use? Two readers questions are tackled below by Leon Speroff, MD, associate director of the Womens Health Research Unit at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and David Archer, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Clinical Research Center at the Eastern Virginia Medical Center in Norfolk.
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Make plans now to attend the annual meeting of the Washington, DC-based American College of Nurse-Midwives. Scheduled for June 10-16 in Washington, DC, the event, With Women Through Time, will commemorate the organizations 50th anniversary.
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An outbreak of a type of Chlamydia trachomatis, lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) has occurred in the Netherlands and other European countries, which has led infectious disease officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ask U.S. clinicians to look out for LGV cases.
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Discontinuation of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may increase the risk of first acute myocardial infarction in the near term.
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Rectal bleeding is quite common in patients younger than 50 years of age, but evaluation by total colonoscopy has often been reserved for older patients since serious lower GI lesions are thought to be unusual in younger individuals.
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A long-term prospective study of 148,610 adults aged 50 to 74 years showed an increased risk of colon cancer with prolonged high consumption of red meat and processed meat.
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The FDA has approved another muscarinic receptor antagonist, after trospium, for overactive bladder.
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Diabetic peripheral neuropathy, with or without diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, is a commonplace and consequential complication of diabetes.
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Administration of 50 mg of DHEA to elderly men and women for 6 months improved insulin action and decreased abdominal fat.
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Interpret the 12-lead ECG in the Figure, obtained from a 47-year-old man who presented with dyspnea. Is there incomplete LBBB (left bundle branch block)?
