May 29th 2024
A recent study investigated the effects of antenatal tocolysis on neurodevelopmental outcomes among children aged 5.5 years following preterm prelabor rupture of membranes, revealing no significant differences in outcomes.
23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® East
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Community Practice Connections™: 14th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies
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4th Annual International Congress on the Future of Women’s Health™
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Exploring Unmet Needs In Postpartum Depression – Making the Case for Early Detection and Novel Treatments
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Identifying Health Care Inequities in Screening, Diagnosis, and Trial Access for Breast Cancer Care: Taking Action With Evidence-Based Solutions
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16th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies™
May 2025
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Identifying perinatal depression--sooner is better
April 1st 2004Depression does occur in pregnant women and not just in those with preexisting mood symptoms. Knowing how to detect the disorder and when to refer is important because you may be the only physician these patients see during the perinatal period.
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Cover Story: Contraception choices for 2004
February 1st 2004Women need thorough and accurate information about the entire array of contraceptive options--new and old--so they can find their ideal method. Adherence--not efficacy--is the problem, and the hope is that greater choice will translate into fewer unintended pregnancies.
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Cover Story: Preventing breast Ca with aromatase inhibitors
December 1st 2003With new research showing that aromatase inhibitors can dramatically cut the risk of recurring breast cancer, patients will probably have many questions about drugs like anastrozole and letrozole. Two experts review the scientific evidence on these valuable agents.
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Treatment options for vulvar vestibulitis
October 1st 2003Considering how successful surgery is, how do you tell a young woman who's unable to have intercourse that she needs to learn to live with her pain? Even so, a surgical approach is only for carefully selected women--usually those with primary vestibulitis who have exhausted other treatment options.
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Cover Story: Should your patients be on extended-use OCs?
September 1st 2003Women treated with OCs for menstrual disorders like dysmenorrhea and irregular bleeding may not want to put up with the withdrawal symptoms linked with the standard regimen's 7-day hormone-free interval. Extending active therapy and reducing hormone-free days can improve their quality of life.
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Do liquid-based Pap smears need a transformation zone component?
July 1st 2003A many as 20% of specimens from liquid-based cytology may lack a TZ component. The author examines the evidence on whether that should be of concern to clinicians and reveals two easy steps that can help you obtain more TZ in Pap specimens.
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Cover Story: When should you induce amenorrhea?
June 2nd 2003Therapeutic amenorrhea is not always easy to initiate or to maintain. But anticipating prolonged, heavy bleeding in patients with certain medical problems--and managing it prophylactically--is far better than trying to stop potentially life-threatening bleeding once it's begun.
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Simplex (differentiated) VIN: an underappreciated threat
April 16th 2003Simplex(differentiated) vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia--probably the immediate precursor of most HPV-negative invasive squamous-cell vulvar carcinomas--is easily missed or misdiagnosed. The women who are most at risk are those with vulvar dystrophy or a prior cancer.
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