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Better understanding of contraceptive methods' effectiveness may help prevent pregnancies among women taking the acne drug isotretinoin, which can cause birth defects.
Medscape Medical News

Drs Richard Zellar and Kathy Miller, at SABCS 2014, discuss locoregional breast cancer therapies, including partial breast irradiation, surgery vs radiation of sentinel nodes, and DCIS scoring.
Medscape Oncology

Women with the highest levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in a wide variety of household and personal-care products enter menopause earlier than those with lower levels.
Medscape Medical News

Celiac disease may be at the root of some women's problems with infertility, Indian researchers say.
Reuters Health Information

Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) may be a better predictor of subclinical atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women than both body mass index and waist circumference, according to new research from Korea.
Reuters Health Information

Britain on Tuesday became the first country to allow a "three-parent" IVF technique which doctors say will prevent some inherited incurable diseases but which critics see as a step towards creating designer babies.
Reuters Health Information

Calcium is a good thing, except when it's not. Dr Lundberg explains.
Medscape Internal Medicine

When giving prenatal tests, leaving the counseling to genetic counselors will ultimately benefit your practice and your patients.
Genetics and Metabolism Division of Children's National Health System

Campaigners urged British lawmakers on Sunday to seize a chance to become the first in the world to allow three-way fertility treatments to families who want to avoid passing on incurable diseases to their children.
Reuters Health Information

In an analysis of a large Australian hospital database, women with PCOS were found to have multiple long-term health problems, emphasizing that PCOS is not just an ob/gyn condition.
Medscape Medical News

With one possible exception, maternal and neonatal outcomes were similar whether the treatment target was 85 or 100 mm Hg for diastolic BP in a large randomized trial.
Heartwire