Preventive Care
From the Journals
500-mg Calcium Pill Protects Against Preeclampsia, Researchers Say
Just 500 mg of calcium daily reduces the risk of pregnant women developing preeclampsia.
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Clinical Exams Fall Short in Second Breast Cancer Detection
A new study highlights the importance of mammogram screening and patient education regarding self-detection, say the authors.
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Optimal Follow-up After Fertility-Sparing Cervical Cancer Surgery
Investigators sought to find out if follow-up could be tailored to the patient’s risk for recurrence.
Conference Coverage
‘World’s Healthiest Arteries’ Found to Be the Most Elastic
The study “provides additional evidence that lifestyle modifications can improve arterial health.”
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The 2024 Adult Vaccine Schedule Changes Are Here
The newest vaccine additions to the 2024 schedule include RSV vaccines, the mpox vaccine, a new MenACWY-MenB combo vaccine, and the new 2023-2024...
Drugs, Pregnancy & Lactation
Toward a better framework for postmarketing reproductive safety surveillance of medications
We want to empower patients to make decisions that work for them based on more rapidly accumulating information and help inform their decisions....
Conference Coverage
Women over 50 may safely de-escalate mammogram frequency following surgery
For women who were cancer free 3 years after curative treatment, a randomized trial showed noninferiority of a 2- or 3-year schedule compared with...
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Early age at first period raises type 2 diabetes risk
“Women with early-life exposures such as early age at menarche need to be further examined for diabetes and prevention research and strategies for...
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Underdiagnosed: Iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy
IDA increases a patient’s risk of delivering preterm and developing postpartum depression and puts their infants at a risk for perinatal mortality...
Conference Coverage
‘Smart’ stethoscope spots peripartum cardiomyopathy
Finding that 4% of the women in the intervention arm had reduced ejection fraction is “absolutely startling ... and speaks to how important...
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Maternal depressive symptoms may start at pregnancy
“The relevant clinical settings for prevention are those treating women in routine health care, including family medicine.”