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Oral Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Fractures and Mortality; Oral Opioid Therapy for Chronic Peripheral and Central Neuropathic Pain; Tacrolimus Ointment vs. Topical Corticosteroids in Adults with Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis.
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Clinical scenario: The computerized interpretation for the ECG in the Figure read, Atrial fibrillation with PVCs (premature ventricular contractions). Do you agree?
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Counterfeit Procrit Uncovered by FDA Surveillance; Pharmaceutical Marketing Campaigns in Full Swing; Ambulatory Antibiotic Reduction: Take the Good with the Bad; Nefazodone Under Attack Once Again; Lindane Receives Black Box Warning; Aspirin Could Help Reduce Colorectal Adenomas.
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New research from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) indicates that for many postmenopausal women, combined hormone therapy does not have a clinically significant effect on their health-related quality of life.
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With fluoroquinolone-resistant gonorrhea becoming more common in the United States, clinicians have looked to two treatment alternatives, cefixime and ceftriaxone, to combat the sexually transmitted disease (STD).
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Since the NuvaRing contraceptive vaginal ring (Organon, West Orange, NJ) entered the U.S. market in mid-2002, new research has been published that underscores its efficacy and acceptability.
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It is estimated some 50 million women in the United States are screened on an annual basis with Pap tests. Clinicians now have another tool in their arsenal that will help distinguish women at increased risk of developing cervical cancer from those at very low risk.
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Your next patient is a young married woman who is unable to use hormonal birth control and is not interested in using an intrauterine device. Because she wants to have more children, sterilization is not an option at the present time. What contraceptive methods are available to her?
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When it comes to emergency contraception (EC), does its availability and use impact ongoing contraceptive methods? Initial research from one study indicates that adolescent mothers who are given a supply of EC are no less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control than teen mothers who are not given EC.
