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The American Society of Clinical Oncology has issued updated guidelines on the use of aromatase inhibitors and tamoxifen for women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

Among menopausal women who are overweight or obese, an intensive diet and exercise program can significantly reduce the incidence and severity of hot flushes, according to a trial.

A microbicide gel may become the new tool for AIDS and herpes prevention among high-risk women, according to results of a groundbreaking study.

Women with unintended pregnancies are more likely than women with intentional pregnancies to continue or initiate unhealthy behaviors after they know they are pregnant.

Older adults simultaneously taking beta blockers and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, widely prescribed for urinary tract infections, appeared to be more at risk for hyperkalemia requiring hospitalization than cohorts taking beta blockers and amoxicillin.

The oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug dexketoprofen (approved for use in the United Kingdom) given preoperatively and intrauterine lidocaine work equally well to relieve the pain associated with fractional curettage, research shows.

The first potential new prescription weight-loss pill to reach the US market in more than a decade is effective and well tolerated, according to a manufacturer's new drug application, but potential safety issues have stalled its approval by the FDA.

There is no evidence that prescribing cholesterol-lowering statins to patients at risk for, but without, heart disease reduces their chances for early death, according to a meta-analysis.

I returned from my summer vacation convinced that pregnant women should eat more seafood. My wife and I along with 3 other couples, including 3 ob/gyns, "bareboated" a sloop and sailed down Italy's Amalfi coast.

Serum vitamin D levels appear to correlate with risk of Parkinson disease, according to results of a study in Finland.

The new surgical training model includes learning basic surgical skills, practicing on a model, watching videos and observing in the operating room, and performing a surgical procedure with feedback and evaluation.

New research from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development confirms the need for H1N1 vaccines in women before undergoing infertility treatment.

NICHD, Endometriosis, and Female Infertility Research

Enhanced Leiomyoma Cell Response to Osmotic Stress is Central to Mechanism of GnRH Analogue Treatment, presented by Desiree M. McCarthy-Keith, MD, MPH

The American Medical Association, the American Osteopathic Association, and the Medical Society for the District of Columbia have filed suit against the FTC in an attempt to exclude physicians from its Red Flags Rule, which requires financial institutions and other creditors to develop and implement a written plan for spotting warning signs of identity theft.

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning that high doses and/or long-term use of prescription or over-the-counter proton pump inhibitors may increase risk for fractures of the hip, waist and spine.

Among women living at least 1 year after being diagnosed with breast cancer, aspirin use decreases the likelihood that those women will die from breast cancer or that their cancer will recur, according to a new study.

The author's suggested reading is a thin book titled, Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care, which he says has the potential to change one's professional life.

Pregnant women who are taking antidepressants are at a 68% greater risk for miscarriage than women not taking the drugs, a nested, case-control study from Quebec reports.

People who brush their teeth twice daily may be up to 70% less likely to develop cardiovascular disease than people with poorer oral hygiene, according to a new survey.

Chronic pelvic pain is common in women. The broad differential diagnosis for chronic pelvic pain and overlap in symptoms among etiologies makes diagnosis challenging but underscores the need to conduct a detailed history and careful examination that considers the full spectrum of cases, according to one expert.

New guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists are less restrictive about attempting vaginal birth after cesarean delivery, reflecting concerns about the soaring rate of cesarean deliveries in the United States.

Pregnant women admitted ot the hospital with pandemic novel influenza A (H1N1) are at increased risk for fetal distress, premature delivery, emergency cesarean delivery, and fetal death, according to an observational analysis.

Amenorrhea is defined as the abnormal absence of menstrual periods. Abnormal or pathologic amenorrhea should be distinguished from absence of menses because of physiologic causes such as pregnancy, lactation, and menopause.

A woman had a cesarean delivery through a lower-segment transverse incision in her first pregnancy because of arrest of descent. She has had a uncomplicated second pregnancy and desires a trial of labor; however, at 39 weeks, she requests labor induction because of her husband's travel schedule. Learn how labor induction can affect the risk associated with vaginal birth after cesarean delivery.

The final "meaningful use" rule for adopting electronic health records gives physicians and hospitals some flexibility in meeting objective necessary to qualify for federal cash incentives.

Although retropubic and transobturator midurethral slings may be objectively equivalent in their treatment of stress incontinence, women do not find them subjectively so, and complication rates can difer, according to a randomized trial.