Search results for "Women's health"
ACP revises advice on women's health
In terms of women's health, recent evidence-based ACP guidelines and advice attracted both pushback and praise from clinicians and patients. ... Our guideline is evidence-based.”. Lisa Larkin, MD, FACP, an internist trained in women's health through
September 2015
Pop Quiz: Women's Health
Pop Quiz: Women's Health. Pop quiz: What's the #1 medical condition that drives women to the doctor, hospital, clinic, etc? ... The analysis, which comes from AHRQ's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, includes data on treatment in doctors' offices,
June 2019
We've learned everything we need from the Women's Health Initiative, so enough already
We've learned everything we need from the Women's Health Initiative, so enough already. ... In yet another paper in a major journal, we hear once more from the investigators of the Women's Health Initiative.
June 2019
Harsh words, and women's health at risk
Harsh words, and women's health at risk. I'll open with a confession. ... Women's health has never really been at the heart of Medical Lessons.
June 2019
More on mammography, breast cancer, misleading arguments, emotion and women's health
More on mammography, breast cancer, misleading arguments, emotion and women's health. ... The authors state that among 1, 000 U.S. women age 50 years who are screened annually for a decade, “490 to 670 will have 1 false alarm.” But as detailed
June 2019
Colonoscopy prep harder on women
Harvard Women's Health Watch(pay-per-view subscription, $3.95) reported that women are more likely to be constipated, so it may be more difficult to clear the bowel. ... Harvard Women's Health Watch suggests giving patients the following advice to help
June 2019
What defunding Planned Parenthood really means
For many women, Planned Parenthood may be the only place to receive reproductive health care near where they live. ... So defunding Planned Parenthood is really defunding women's health care. Period.
June 2019
QD: News Every Day--Aspirin associated with lowered melanoma risk in observational study
Women who take aspirin may have a reduced risk of developing melanoma, and the effect may increase the longer women take it, according to observational outcomes from the Women's Health ... Furthermore, women with 5 or more years of use had a 30% lower
June 2019
Can we start using menopausal estrogen replacement again safely?
In 2002, at the height of an era of estrogen optimism, when physicians mostly believed that estrogen was good for every woman after menopause, the huge Women's Health Initiative study ... Such a large study was only possible through federal funding and
June 2019
Vitamins in a Nutshell
Vitamins in a Nutshell. This post by Davis Liu, MD, originally appeared at Better Health. ... Better Health's mission is to support and promote health care professional bloggers, provide insightful and trustworthy health commentary, and help to inform
June 2019