Women's Health
- Denosumab cessation
Bone loss is rapid if patients miss injections. Clinicians can take extra measures to ensure patients get appropriate treatment.
- Medical complications of anorexia nervosa
Many of these complications resolve with treatment and weight gain, but others can lead to permanent damage.
- Liposuction: Concepts, safety, and techniques in body-contouring surgery
In addition to its purely aesthetic uses, liposuction is an important adjunct in reconstructive surgery.
- How to respond to flu vaccine doubters
Misinformation and unfounded fears abound. What should you tell patients who say no to a fl u shot?
- Vaping: The new wave of nicotine addiction
Despite perceptions that vaping is harmless and claims that it can aid in smoking cessation, risks are emerging.
- Beyond depression: Other uses for tricyclic antidepressants
The pharmacology of these drugs, their potential uses in conditions other than depression, and safety considerations.
- Gabapentin for alcohol use disorder: A good option, or cause for concern?
There is concern about the potential for abuse. Use it only as a second-line alternative, with caution.
- STI update: Testing, treatment, and emerging threats
Fast, sensitive molecular diagnostic tests that use self-collected samples may help bend the upward curve of STIs.
- SEEDS for success: Lifestyle management in migraine
Lifestyle counseling can be based on the mnemonic SEEDS: sleep, exercise, eat, diary, and stress.
- Vulvar and gluteal manifestations of Crohn disease
Crohn disease is associated with extraintestinal manifestations in up to 45% of patients.