October 1, 2009
The specificity and sensitivity of fetal fibronectin testing are significantly lower for predicting delivery at less than 30 weeks gestation in asymptomatic women with cervical cerclage.
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October 1, 2009
Women who use oral contraceptives have a significantly reduced risk for symptoms of stress urinary incontinence, mixed urinary incontinence, and urgency urinary incontinence, even after adjusting for age, body mass index, and pregnancy history.
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October 1, 2009
Babies arriving 4 to 6 weeks early are significantly more likely to develop respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, intraventricular hemorrhage, hypoglycemia, and jaundice requiring phototherapy
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October 1, 2009
A new tool for assessing cervical cancer risk may offer clinicians a simpler method for making treatment decisions than commonly used management algorithms
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October 1, 2009
Antiviral drugs should be used to treat H1N1 swine flu only in patients who are hospitalized from the flu or are at high risk of complications.
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October 1, 2009
The menopausal transition has relatively little effect on quality of life after adjusting for menopausal symptoms, medical conditions and stress, according to a study in the September/October issue of Menopause.
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October 1, 2009
Since its FDA approval, more than 23 million doses of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine have been distributed in US and a total of 12,424 reports of adverse events following immunization have been received.
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October 1, 2009
The use of folate may reduce the long-term risk of death in patients with coronary artery disease and elevated homocysteine.
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