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Glass and colleagues from the Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research compared breast cancer incidence rates with use of screening mammography and postmenopausal hormone therapy prescriptions between 1980 and 2006.
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High-Dose Statin Therapy, Value for Older Adults; Simvastatin, Best for Parkinson's Disease; Polyethylene Glycol for Chronic Constipation; FDA Actions
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Richards and colleagues representing the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study Research Group reported the effect of daily selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) use in a prospective cohort study in 7 regional centers of 5008 adults over the age of 50.
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Ovarian cancer patients relapsing within 6 months of their primary therapy represent among the most challenging patients to treat. Generally, in this setting, most patients have only been exposed to one or two agents, yet they are phenotypically resistant to most chemotherapeutics, making drug discovery of paramount importance.
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Results of the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) study were published in a recent issue of JAMA. In this multicenter, randomized controlled trial a total of 3088 women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer (stage I-IIIa) within the previous four years were randomized to a diet rich in vegetables, fruit and fiber and low in fat, vs a regular diet.
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Reproductive and sexual functioning following treatment for malignant ovarian germ cell tumors (GCTs) has been sparsely studied since the introduction conservative surgery and chemotherapy.
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A questionnaire was administered to 713 consecutive patients referred to a pelvic pain clinic. In addition to the high frequency of a history of sexual and/or physical abuse, patients with a history of such trauma were found to have worse daily physical functioning due to poor health, more surgery, more time in bed, more medical symptoms, and more dysfunction due to pain.
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The author has systematically reviewed the literature between 1949 and 2005, searching for research related to adenomyosis as well as the diagnosis thereof. Although superior to transabdominal sonography, the transvaginal route has a sensitivity of only 50-87%.
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The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Coronary-Artery Calcium Study (WHI-CACS) was an ancillary study of estrogen-only participants in 28 of the 40 WHI centers.
