Women's Health
- Vulvovaginitis: Find the cause to treat it
The cause is usually infectious, but noninfectious causes should also be considered, and differentiating them can be challenging.
- Iodine deficiency: Clinical implications
Requirements are higher in pregnant and lactating women. Risk is higher in vegans and those who are lactose-intolerant.
- Maternal asthma: Management strategies
The benefits of asthma treatment during pregnancy outweigh the risks associated with the medications used.
- Sexual dysfunction in women: Can we talk about it?
Sexual health may be difficult to discuss, for both the patient and the provider.
- Peripartum depression: Early recognition improves outcomes
Evidence is mounting that the risks of untreated maternal depression outweigh those of treating it.
- Black hairy tongue cured concurrently with respiratory infection
Proposed causes include medications, hyposalivation, poor oral hygiene, smoking, and infection.
- A dermatosis of pregnancy
Eight days after giving birth, a 33-year-old woman presented with pruritic erythematous papules and plaques on the abdomen.
- ERAAs for menopause treatment: Welcome the ‘designer estrogens’
These drugs stimulate estrogen receptors in some tissues and inhibit them in others, enabling tailored treatment.
- Syphilis 100 years later: Another lost opportunity?
A century of progress and then backward steps on syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.
- A large mass in the right ventricle: Tumor or thrombus?
A 69-year-old woman with ovarian cancer presents with worsening dyspnea, lower-extremity edema, and dizziness.