In an observational study of more than 1 million women, those with hay fever were 91% less likely to have ovarian cancer, and women with asthma were 44% less likely to have cervical cancer. Medscape Medical News
Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, points you to an excellent source to learn the right way to insert a chest tube. The Medscape Journal of Medicine
Adult-onset asthma in women, but not in men, appears to increase the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, according to a report in the May 1st American Journal of Cardiology. Reuters Health Information
Could a screening test of concept trial, with an endpoint of plasma HIV-RNA VL at setpoint in infected participants, reduce to 30 the number of needed infections to achieve adequate statistical power? AIDS
David Hellerstein, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, discusses his interesting twist of EBP to PBE. The Medscape Journal of Medicine
Whether asthma is caused definitively by environmental exposures is unclear. How do levels of indoor home pollutants compare in homes of inner-city, preschool children with and without asthma? Environmental Health Perspectives
