Clinical Review
Clinical Review
How much vitamin D should you recommend to your nonpregnant patients?
Two experts explain what’s known about vitamin D, review the guidance offered to clinicians by the Institute of Medicine, and offer concrete...
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UPDATE ON OVARIAN CANCER
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may improve outcomes in women who have bulky, advanced ovarian cancer
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UPDATE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASE
New guidance this year: We need to be more vigilant for group B strep and influenza in pregnancy and give prophylactic antimicrobials before the...
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Pregnancy and epilepsy— managing both, in one patient
When a woman who has epilepsy is pregnant or planning for pregnancy, you face the challenge of balancing the benefits and teratogenic risks of her...
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A talk about, then a plan for, antidepressants in pregnancy
Start? Stop? Sustain? Switch? How should you advise a patient about a serotonin reuptake inhibitor during pregnancy—for her health and the well...
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UPDATE ON MENOPAUSE
Here is a roundup of the latest data on vitamin D requirements in women and how the route, timing, and duration of hormone therapy influence its...
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UPDATE ON MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
Careful preoperative assessment and innovative tools facilitate hysteroscopic myomectomy. Can office myomectomy be far off?
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How to improve outcomes in gestational diabetes— for mother and baby
Early diagnosis, close monitoring, and aggressive management may improve outcomes, for both patients, in pregnancies marked by gestational...
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UPDATE ON CERVICAL DISEASE
Guidance on HPV vaccination, cervical cancer screening, and colposcopically directed biopsy
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How to choose a contraceptive for a patient who has headaches
Developing an accurate diagnosis of headache subtype will help avert unnecessary restriction of hormonal methods among your patients who do not...
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What we’ve learned from 2 decades’ experience with the LNG-IUS
The latest data on long-term use, benefits, and risks of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system—to fine-tune and amplify its use in your...