FPN || Women's Health

NSAID use linked to reduced risk for second nonmelanoma skin cancer

Posted on: 14/05/2014 - 16:55

ALBUQUERQUE – Postmenopausal women who had a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer and regularly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs had an 18% lower risk of developing subsequent skin cancers,...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Adding evolocumab to statins further lowered LDL cholesterol

Posted on: 13/05/2014 - 21:00

Adding evolocumab to both moderate- and high-intensity statin therapy lowered low-density lipoprotein cholesterol even further in an international phase III clinical trial reported online May 13 in...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Adding evolocumab to statins further lowered LDL cholesterol

Posted on: 13/05/2014 - 21:00

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Parents, teens misunderstand parameters of confidential interviews

Posted on: 09/05/2014 - 17:25

PHILADELPHIA – Despite an overall agreement on its merit, both parents and their adolescent daughters are leery of the confidential interview in the gynecologic setting, in part because each cohort...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Cervical length at 16-22 weeks predicts preterm birth

Posted on: 05/05/2014 - 16:45

CHICAGO – Transvaginal ultrasound measures of cervical length at 16-22 weeks gestation can identify patients who have a short cervix and are at risk of preterm birth, allowing selection of patients...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: HPV testing predicted to displace most Pap smears

Posted on: 30/04/2014 - 15:35

CHICAGO – Dr. Laurie J. McKenzie, who is a member of the ACOG Committee on the Scientific Program and the medical faculties of the University of Texas and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: HPV testing predicted to displace most Pap smears

Posted on: 30/04/2014 - 15:35

CHICAGO – Dr. Laurie J. McKenzie, who is a member of the ACOG Committee on the Scientific Program and the medical faculties of the University of Texas and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Contraception 2014: What you need to know

Posted on: 29/04/2014 - 20:05

CHICAGO – From advances in long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) to emergency contraception, Dr. Eve Espey and Dr. Tony Ogburn of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, give you a quick...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Uterine perforation rare with levonorgestrel and copper IUDs

Posted on: 29/04/2014 - 17:45

CHICAGO – Uterine perforation rates are low for both the levonorgestrel intrauterine device and copper devices, and do not differ significantly between the two, according to the multinational...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Inadequate weight gain ups preterm birth risk in twin pregnancies

Posted on: 25/04/2014 - 22:00

Women with twin pregnancies who have inadequate gestational weight gain during the second trimester have a more than twofold increase in the risk of preterm birth before 32 weeks, compared with those...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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