Subcutaneous medroxyprogesterone acetate has been approved for the treatment of endometriosis-related pelvic pain. It is the first new treatment to be approved for this indication in 15 years. ...

Atrix Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRX), Fort Collins, Colo., has received approval from the FDA for Eligard(TM) 7.5 mg (formerly Leuprogel One-Month Depot), leuprolide acetate for subcutaneous injection for treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Atrix and Sanofi-Synt...

Sex Offender Treatment: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Future Directions (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, Inc., 2001) M.H. Miner and E. Coleman, Editors ...

Kravitz, H. M., Haywood, T. W., Kelly, J., Wahlstrom, C., Liles, S. & Cavanaugh, J. L. (1995), Medroxyprogesterone treatment for paraphiliacs. Bull. Amer. Acad. Psychiat. Law, 23:19-33. ...

Voyager Pharmaceutical Corp. of Raleigh plans to go public. ...

One MT's role in an IVF program I love my job. An in vitro fertilization (IVF) laboratory is an unconventional workplace for a medical technologist, but the work is both challenging and rewarding. Best of all, I'm free of the stress typically associated with med...

In a recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, this author decried the need for government and pharmaceutical industry support for research in the treatment of sexually deviant behavior (Bradford, 1998). There are a number of reasons for this, includin...

Organon Inc., West Orange, N.J., has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of ANTAGON (ganirelix acetate) Injection, indicated for inhibiting premature leutenizing hormone (LH) surges in women undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. A...

Atrix Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRX ATRX - Alpha-Thalassemia/Mental Retardation Syndrome, Nondeletion Type, X-Linked), Fort Collins, Colo., has received approval from the FDA for Eligard(TM) 7.5 mg (formerly Leuprogel One-Month Depot), leuprolide leuprolide /...

Bisphenol A (BPA BPA British Paediatric Association.) is the monomer used to manufacture polycarbonate plastic, the resin lining of cans, and other products, with global capacity in excess of 6.4 billion lb/year. Because the ester bonds in these BPA-based poly...

Uterine leiomyomas, or fibroids, represent a major public health problem. It is believed that these tumors develop in the majority of American women and become symptomatic in one-third of these women. They are the most frequent indication for hysterectomy in the Un...

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From January 1982 to May 2000, 17 infections caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei were diagnosed in 15 patients in Taiwan; almost all the infections were diagnosed from 1994 to May 2000. Of the 15 patients, 9 (60%) had underlying diseases, and 10 (67%) had bacteremi...

WEST ORANGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 1999-- First Major Innovation in Ovulation Supression Regimens in More Than a Decade Cuts Days of Fertility Drug fertility drug, any of a variety of substances used to increase the possibility of conception and succ...

Abstract: The epidemiology and current understanding of the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome is reviewed, beginning with a historical perspective. The roles of genetics, environment, allergy, infection and inflammation, bacterial overgrowth, hormones a...

Uterine fibroids are solid muscle tissue growths in the uterus. They are also called fibroid tumors, myomas, or leiomyomas. Fibroids occur so frequently (in up to half of all women over forty) that they could be considered a normal irregularity. The occasional fibroid...

If you're a woman that has fibroid tumors and you're considering treatment options, you've come to the right place. In this brief article, we'll discuss the popular fibroid tumor treatments so that you can have a better idea of the types of treatments that are current...