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Consider the following patients: a 15-year-old young mother, a 30-year-old married woman with no previous pregnancies, a 30-year-old single woman with no children, and a 30-year-old HIV-positive woman with three children. When discussing contraceptive options, do you include intrauterine contraception in talking with these women?
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Update your practice when it comes to treatment of gonorrhea: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends the fluoroquinolone antibiotics ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin as a treatment for gonorrhea in the United States.
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As clinicians begin to integrate use of the first cervical cancer vaccine (Gardasil, Merck & Co.; Whitehouse Station, NJ), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to review the application for a second vaccine.
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection results in both acute and chronic hepatitis.
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Torcetrapib, a cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor, has been in development by Pfizer for nearly 15 years.
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In a group of smokers who were hospitalized with cardiac symptoms, a combination of 12 weeks of behavior modification counseling plus pharmacotherapy resulted in higher tobacco abstinence rates, lower re-hospitalization rates, and markedly reduced mortality rates compared with usual care over two years of follow-up.
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When compared to The Zone, Ornish, or LEARN diets, the very low carbohydrate diet (Atkins), showed that premenopausal, overweight, and obese women lost more weight and had the most beneficial metabolic effects at 12 months.
