News tagged with chronic pelvic pain

Teens with pelvic inflammatory disease rarely seen in outpatient setting due to costs

Hospitalizing teen girls with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) costs six times as much as treating them in the emergency room, and up to 12 times more than treating them in an outpatient clinic, according to a small study ...

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created Jan 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Medical Minute: Health care plays role in domestic abuse screening

Domestic violence is a health care problem of epidemic proportions in Pennsylvania and across the country. Nationally, nearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually abused by a current ...

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created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Annual chlamydia screening may not protect women from pelvic inflammatory disease

It is unlikely that single screening for chlamydia will prevent women developing pelvic inflammatory disease in the following year, according to research published in the British Medical Journal today.

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created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Professor says syphilis making comeback, gonorrhea more treatment resistant

Dr. David H. Martin, Professor and Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, updated reporters and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on sexually ...

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created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pelvic pain as prevalent in teens as older males

A Queen's University research team has found that a painful pelvic affliction associated with adult men occurs as frequently in adolescent boys. Chronic prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a urogenital ...

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created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0