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For 50 years, women have had a reliable form of birth control in the form of the combined oral contraceptive pill. What has emerged in the same time period for men?
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Heads up for reproductive health and family planning clinics in California and Nevada: The Female Health Co.'s free FC2 Female Condom Experience Program is headed your way. Deadline for applications from clinics in the two states is Aug. 31, 2010, says Rebecca Kizaric, training manager for the Chicago-based company.
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Add current data to your clinical knowledge base: the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued updated recommendations for routine and catch-up vaccination of females with the bivalent or quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccines (HPV2, HPV4), as well as published its policy statement and summarized background data on use of the HPV4 vaccine in males.
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New reports about proton pump inhibitors and the effects of gastric suppression, pioglitazone vs vitamin E for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, metformin and vitamin B12 deficiency, and FDA Actions.
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Increased intake of chocolate was associated with higher rates of depression on a mood screening instrument in this cross-sectional study. Whether cause and effect or self-treatment, the generally accepted idea that chocolate is comfort food appears in doubt.
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Researchers and clinicians now recognize Vitamin D as being a nutrient extremely important for human health. It has connections to many different body systems, with support from clinical trials and basic science research.
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An association between bone disease due to vitamin D deficiency (i.e., osteomalacia and pain) has long been established. However, despite epidemiologic studies associating painful conditions with season and latitude, research on vitamin D and pain is confusing.
