Clinical Review
Clinical Review
Is private ObGyn practice on its way out?
Last year’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was designed to nudge you out of private practice. The law isn’t the only pressure on...
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UPDATE ON PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION
We need to expand the differential diagnosis for chronic pelvic pain to include pelvic myofascial pain
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Vulvar pain syndromes: Making the correct diagnosis
Many cases of generalized vulvodynia and localized vulvodynia (vestibulodynia) are mistakenly attributed to yeast infection, pudendal neuralgia,...
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UPDATE ON SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
Among women affected by cancer, the further affliction of sexual dysfunction is widespread
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Vitamin D and pregnancy: 9 things you need to know
Because the fetus derives vitamin D exclusively from maternal stores, a low level in a pregnant woman can have serious repercussions
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UPDATE ON CONTRACEPTION
When it comes to the morning-after pill, physicians need a wake-up call
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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...