Dermatology

ICP is of particular importance to obstetricians because it has been connected to an increased risk of fetal complications.

Skin moisturizers marketed as "youth enhancing" may contain estrogen and could pose a risk to certain women.

PCOS is challenging to diagnose-and easy to miss-in teenagers especially because symptoms like acne and irregular periods are common in normal teens.

Advice to patient whose husband has penile lesion: get him to his doctor quickly. Possible differential diagnoses/treatments are discussed.

How many times has a patient said, "Oh, by the way, doctor..." just as you're leaving the exam room? This column will help you quickly triage those seemingly offhand yet clinically significant encounters.

A single methotrexate (MTX) injection is as effective as multiple doses for managing unruptured ectopic pregnancy, according to the results of the first randomized, prospective study to compare the two medical regimens.

The Food and Drug Administration has fully implemented a new program to ensure that the acne drug isotretinoin (Accutane) is not used by pregnant women or those who can become pregnant.

Few ob/gyns are prepared for the terrifying sight of a pregnant woman in the throes of an eclamptic convulsion. You can't predict which preeclamptic patients will go on to develop life-threatening eclampsia. But when they do, you can be ready to follow these seven important steps for stabilization and induction of labor within 24 hours.

In recent years, cisplatin-based chemotherapy given concurrent with radiation has emerged as the new standard of care for treating locally advanced cervical cancer.

In an effort to improve the diagnosis of breast cancer, an international panel of 23 expert surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, and oncologists recently recommended expanding the roles of minimally invasive needle and sentinel node biopsies and severely limiting the role of open surgical biopsies, citing that almost one third of the 1.7 million breast biopsies performed in the United States are still done surgically.

Concerns about gaps in knowledge about women's health across the life span are what spurred the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) in 1990. Until then, women could not be ensured of inclusion in clinical research that would impact both men and women.

Glyburide is as effective as insulin for women with gestational diabetes mellitus and a fasting plasma glucose of 140 mg/dL or less on a 3-hour glucose tolerance test, according to a 4-year retrospective study of a large and diverse managed-care population.

Outpatients undergoing early uterine evacuations in your office require a safe environment and a clinician with a thorough knowledge of the medical and surgical techniques. This practical review provides protocols for medical abortion and early pregnancy failures and guides you through the manual vacuum aspiration procedure.

Once considered extremely rare, CDSP has become more common as cesarean rates have risen. Consider CDSP when you see a gestational sac in the lower uterine segment on U/S.

Once considered extremely rare, CDSP has become more common as cesarean rates have risen. Consider CDSP when you see a gestational sac in the lower uterine segment on U/S.

Adjuvant treatment with cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF) in women with operable breast cancer at risk of relapse halves that threat and reduces the risk of death with minimal long-term sequelae.

Taking a multivitamin or vitamin E can neutralize the decrease in neutrophil count caused by chemotherapy, but high folate consumption may exacerbate the problem, suggests this small study.

It's imperative to identify more HIV-infected women earlier in pregnancy through HIV testing and to reduce mother-to-child transmission of the virus that causes AIDS.

Skillful interpretation of ultrasound images, hCG values, and patients' signs and symptoms can help identify ectopics early on. Once the diagnosis is made, salpingectomy, salpingostomy, and methotrexate are your therapeutic options.

Once a common cause of perinatal death, Rh disease is now quite rare in pregnant women, thanks in large part to advances in U/S and DNA technology. But the fact that roughly 7 out of every 1,000 liveborn infants are delivered by Rh-sensitized women emphasizes the need for more vigorous preventive efforts and up-to-date management skills.

Your patient has CIN, a precursor to cervical cancer. How do you manage her pregnancy? An expert pathologist provides algorithms and a step-by-step guide for safely biopsying a pregnant cervix-when appropriate.

Drs. Barnhart and Goldstein share their expertise in dealing with D&C and ectopic pregnancy.

Before choosing the appropriate surgical procedure, a two-pronged approach--transvaginal ultrasonography and CA-125 assessment--is the best way to determine the benign or malignant nature of an ovarian mass.

With so many baby boomers seeking the fountain of youth, demand for cosmetic procedures is booming too. A dermatologist shares her expertise on microdermabrasion, Botox injections, and augmentation with collagen.

A dermatologist shares her expertise on the role of lasers and other increasingly popular ways to remove unsightly spider veins and unwanted hair.