Komal Jhaveri, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and lead author of the EMBER-3 trial, as she discusses the significance of this approval, its impact on the treatment…
Sung-Bae Kim, MD, PhD, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, reports on results from the East Asian subgroup of the Phase 3 EMBER‑3 trial, showing that in patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A cervical cancer prevention trial conducted in South Africa shows that a single test for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection followed by cryotherapy in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The transdermal estradiol gel 0.1% (Divigel) is effective for relieving moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause regardless of the woman’s age…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women undergoing hysteroscopy without anesthesia for intrauterine evaluation because of infertility experience much less pain during the examination if misoprostol is administered vaginally…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with heavy menstrual bleeding may find that the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (Mirena; Bayer Schering) is more effective than oral medroxyprogesterone acetate in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a finding of atypical glandular cells (AGC) on cervical cytology are more likely than those without AGC to have malignant breast…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For couples undergoing fertility treatment with intrauterine insemination (IUI), pregnancy rates are similar whether single or double insemination is performed in the same…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women undergoing in vitro fertilization, hormonal support with progesterone plus estradiol supplementation during the luteal phase after embryo transfer improves pregnancy and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Revised guidelines on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis related to glucocorticoid use recommend bisphosphonate therapy but withdraw endorsement of testosterone and estrogen…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cervical biopsies guided by colposcopy are accurate in confirming suspected cases of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), but the negative predictive value is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – By spotting pregnant women at risk for preeclampsia and starting them on low-dose aspirin before 16 weeks’ gestation, physicians can more than halve…
