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UPDATE: contraception
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Endometrial Cancer
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Consider retroperitoneal packing for postpartum hemorrhage
For intractable bleeding, this technique, borrowed from pelvic trauma surgery, allows you to stabilize the patient until her underlying injury can...
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UPDATE: INFECTIOUS DISEASE
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Is hormonal contraception right for your perimenopausal patient?
In healthy patients, combination OCs and other hormonal methods have a lot to offer—as long as you’re mindful of risks in selected subgroups.
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“Doctor, I want a C-section.” How should you respond?
Is she motivated by a fear of childbirth or a true wish for C-section? Here’s how to identify candidates.
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PART 1: Advising your patients Uterine fibroids: Childbearing, cancer, and hormone effects
Women who have uterine fibroids are often fearful about what the diagnosis means. Discussing the evidence with them provides reassurance for most...
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MENOPAUSE
Does estrogen therapy carry more risk than benefit? The answer depends, new data suggest, on the age of the patient, route of administration, and...
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Managing preterm birth to lower the risk of cerebral palsy
Think past hypoxia to the interactions of infection, inflammation, pPROM, and white matter disease
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CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN
Are stimuli from damaged tissue, or maladaptive changes to the nerve supply, responsible for chronic pain syndromes? The answer may alter...
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Smoking cessation: Tactics that make a difference
Telephone “quitlines,” Web support, text messaging, and drugs all boost the quit rate—if you set the stage