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,
July 2020
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.
July 2020
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.
July 2020
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
July 2020
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
July 2020
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.
July 2020
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
July 2020
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
July 2020
Gender gap increases women's heart risks
Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. ... But we could accomplish most of these (women's heart guidelines) in primary care without much extra effort.”.
November 2008