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Number 544
ABSTRACT: Unintended pregnancy remains a major public health problem in the United States. Access and cost issues are common reasons why women either do not use contraception or have gaps in use. A p...
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December 2012
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Number 295
(Reaffirmed 2008, Replaces No. 231, February 2000)
ABSTRACT: Pain management should be provided whenever medically indicated. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) believe t...
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July 2004
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Number 364
(Reaffirmed 2009)
ABSTRACT: Many basic scientists and clinicians support the right to obtain and enforce patents on drugs, diagnostic tests, medical devices, and most recently, genes. Although those who develop useful...
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May 2007
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Number 488
ABSTRACT: Pharmacogenetics is the study of genetic variations in drug response that are determined by specific genes. It is hoped that the use of pharmacogenetics in clinical practice may improve dru...
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May 2011
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Number 556
ABSTRACT: The development of menopausal symptoms and related disorders, which lead women to seek prescriptions for postmenopausal estrogen therapy and hormone therapy, is a common reason for a patien...
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April 2013
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Number 485
(Reaffirmed 2013, Replaces No. 279, December 2002)
ABSTRACT: In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidelines for the prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal disease. Although universal screening at 35–37 weeks of ...
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April 2011
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Number 541
(Replaces No. 401, March 2008)
ABSTRACT: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (the College) has a long history of leadership in ensuring that its educational mission is evidence based and unbiased. A predecessor...
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November 2012
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Number 540
ABSTRACT: Although the risk of venous thromboembolism is increased among oral contraceptive users compared with nonusers who are not pregnant and not taking hormones, and some data have suggested tha...
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November 2012
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Number 381
(Reaffirmed 2012)
ABSTRACT: Subclinical hypothyroidism is diagnosed in asymptomatic women when the thyroid-stimulating hormone level is elevated and the free thyroxine level is within the reference range. Thyroid horm...
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October 2007
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Number 494
Abstract: The evidence regarding an association between the nitrofuran and sulfonamide classes of antibiotics and birth defects is mixed. As with all patients, antibiotics should be prescribed for pr...
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June 2011
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Number 336
(Reaffirmed 2008, Replaces No. 232, April 2000)
ABSTRACT: Tamoxifen may be associated with endometrial proliferation, hyperplasia, polyp formation, invasive carcinoma, and uterine sarcoma. Any symptoms of endometrial hyperplasia or cancer reported...
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June 2006
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Number 566
(Replaces No. 521, March 2012)
ABSTRACT: In the face of dramatic and persistent increases in pertussis disease in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has...
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June 2013
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Number 521
(Replaces No. 438, August 2009)
ABSTRACT: In light of the recent increased incidence of pertussis in the United States, in 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices approved...
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March 2012
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Number 495
ABSTRACT: During pregnancy, severe maternal vitamin D deficiency has been associated with biochemical evidence of disordered skeletal homeostasis, congenital rickets, and fractures in the newborn. At...
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July 2011
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