OBGYN || Across Specialties

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

Topical lidocaine reduces menopausal dyspareunia

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

Applying topical liquid lidocaine to the vulvar vestibule prior to penetration allows for comfortable intercourse in breast cancer survivors with severe menopausal dyspareunia, according to findings...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

CDC: Vaccines prevent millions of illnesses, but measles makes a return

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 23:10

Vaccines will prevent an estimated 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations, and 732,000 premature deaths during the lifetimes of children born during the two decades after the Vaccines for...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Doctors reconstruct noses, create vaginas using engineered human tissue

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 23:30

Researchers have successfully engineered human tissue from autologous tissue for the reconstruction of nasal alar lobules in one first-in-human trial while investigators in separate study were able...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Doctors reconstruct noses, create vaginas using engineered human tissue

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 23:30

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Milk may slow knee OA progression in women

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 19:45

Milk consumption was associated with a slowing of the structural progression of knee osteoarthritis among women who participated in the longitudinal Osteoarthritis Initiative study. From a group of...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Milk may slow knee OA progression in women

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 19:45

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Too much or too little sodium may boost cardiovascular risk

Posted on: 02/04/2014 - 14:25

Patients who had notably high or notably low sodium intake levels were at an increased risk of both all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, compared with patients who had usual sodium intake...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Fruit and vegetable consumption in young women linked to later CVD benefit

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

A high intake of fruit and vegetables during early adulthood was associated with a lower risk of having calcified arterial plaque 20 years later, a benefit that was only evident in women, in the...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Fruit and vegetable consumption in young women linked to later CVD benefit

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

A high intake of fruit and vegetables during early adulthood was associated with a lower risk of having calcified arterial plaque 20 years later, a benefit that was only evident in women, in the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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