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If your clinical practice includes the care of age 50-plus women, are you including information on risks for sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? You should.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, female adolescents have the highest number of cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia in the United States.1 While the overall prevalence for these infections among individuals ages 14-39 are .24% and 2.2% respectively, these rates are .92% and 3.4% for those ages 14-19.2
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled a Dec. 8, 2011, meeting of its Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee and Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee to review the risks and benefits of oral contraceptives containing the progestin drospirenone. The agency is weighing evidence regarding the risk of increased blood clots in users of such pills.
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Thyroid dysfunction and disease might present as reproductive compromise including oligomenorrhea, infertility, and miscarriage.
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The safer sex message is reaching adolescents. Results of a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows the percentage of teen males ages 15-19 in the United States who used a condom the first time they had sex increased between 2002 and 2006-2010.
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The contraceptive options for women who cannot use hormonal methods might soon expand if regulatory approval is given to a new single-size diaphragm. Results of a two-year multi-site study of 450 U.S. couples indicate the effectiveness rates of the SILCS single size, contoured diaphragm, now in development, are similar to traditional diaphragms.
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To perform the study, researchers designed a pooled analysis of individual data from two large studies by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an international collaboration on cancer research, and the Institut Català d'Oncologia, a Spanish-based oncology research program.
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The prognostic relevance of fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) internal tandem duplications and point mutations at D835 in acute promeylocytic leukemia (APL) is controversial.
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A 70-year-old man undergoing preoperative evaluation for abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery was noted to have a 3 cm mass in the right adrenal gland with heterogeneous texture but clear margins.
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For patients in the midst of chemotherapy, there are little data on the most efficacious time to administer influenza vaccine. In a randomized study of 38 patients receiving FEC chemotherapy for adjuvant treatment of breast cancer, it is apparent that vaccination early (on day 4 of a 21-day cycle) provided better antibody response than when administered late in the cycle (day 16).
