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In this issue: Two new drugs for treatment of hepatitis C; NSAIDs and myocardial infarction risk; AIM-HIGH clinical trial stopped; and FDA actions.
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Current guidelines for the use of emergency oxygen recommend its judicious use in patients with obesity-associated hypoventilation (OAH) in order to avoid worsening hypercarbia, but these guidelines have largely been based on anecdotal clinical experience rather than systematically collected evidence.
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In this study of a large administrative database, the incidence of selected complications in patients diagnosed with sleep apnea (SA) was compared to that in patients undergoing similar surgical procedures who were not diagnosed with SA.
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Baseline and 6-month data were collected on morbidly obese women who planned to undergo weight reduction surgery.
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Dealing with a question about certain dietary items in pregnancy sometimes is daunting because often there is no consensus regarding a proper answer.
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Uterine leiomyosarcomas (LMS) rarely are suspected preoperatively unless there has been documented rapid growth of the uterus or evidence of extrauterine disease.
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Understanding sexual pain remains limited. with multiple etiologies and lack of evidence-based outcomes research, future investigations should focus on evaluating the intimacy of the couple, the partner relationship, and biomedical sources of pain such as the pelvic floor muscles.
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