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Contraception for Adolescent and Young Adult Women
by Amy Whitaker Melissa GilliamForty-five percent of adolescents ages 15-19 have had sexual intercourse By age 19, 75% of all adolescents have had sexual intercourse Most adolescents select condoms as their most reliable method of contraception. The United States continues to rank among the highest of all similarly developed countries in rates of adolescent pregnancy, and the unintended pregnancy rate is highest among women ages 20-24. The reasons for these public health statistics are myriad, but a major issue is that adolescents and young women use contraception inconsistently. Thus, there is a need for youth to learn about and use contraception consistently and effectively Unfortunately, misinformation abounds, even among practicing clinicians. Young people need a clinician who is up to date on clinical recommendations regarding contraceptive care. The busy clinician needs information at his or her fingertips, needs to know how to create a teen-friendly environment and must exhibit best contraceptive counseling practices. Gynecologists and primary care practitioners (as well as family physicians, adolescent medicine physicians and pediatricians) are on the front lines when it comes to discussing, recommending and prescribing contraceptive options to adolescent and young women. This book is a valuable resource for these clinicians; it is the only handbook on the market on contraception for the adolescent and young adult women and it is filled with evidence-based information in an easy to read and easy to digest format Now is an optimal time for a book of this sort The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just completed a clinical guideline for contraceptive care based on the World Health Organization's Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC). The United States MEC seeks to demystify contraceptive care for all women It also lays the groundwork for helping providers improve clinical practice in contraceptive care. Contraception for Adolescent and Young Adult Women will complement these efforts in a manner tailored to the unique needs of this population.
Contraception for the Medically Challenging Patient
by Rebecca H. Allen and Carrie A. CwiakWomen with chronic medical problems are at higher risk for complications during pregnancy and therefore, they are especially in need of appropriate preconception and contraception care. Furthermore, many women with chronic medical problems do not obtain adequate preconception and contraception care. Despite published guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is a substantial gap in medical practice regarding the use of contraception in women with co-existing medical problems.Contraception for the Medically Challenging Patient fills the gap that currently exists in the knowledge of correct contraceptive prescribing practice and shows that inappropriate contraindications can easily become a barrier to effective contraception use among women. Chapters highlight obsolete views about appropriate candidates for contraception and address the complex contraceptive needs of today's medically challenging patients with HIV/AIDS, uterine fibroids or cardiac, neurologic or thyroid disease. The book gives attention to recommendations on the use of contraception in women with medical problems such as diabetes, obesity, epilepsy, and lupus, among others and provides comprehensive information regarding the effects that certain drugs may have on contraceptive hormone levels. While national guidelines do exist for contraceptive eligibility, this book discusses in more detail the evidence behind the guideline recommendations and the nuances that clinicians confront in daily practice.
Contraception: From the experts at The Lowdown: Your essential guide to separating the myths from the medicine
by Alice Pelton Dr Frances Yarlett Dr Melanie Davis-HallThe choices we make with our contraception can have wide-ranging consequences for our health, and yet as a recent survey showed, nearly 80 per cent of women continue to suffer with side effects. Is this good enough in the 21st century?Choosing the right option is a frequently bewildering journey, littered with trial and error, misinformation, and confusion. With so many pill brands on the market, each with different formulations and potential side effects, it can feel impossible to find the one that's right for us. We are also often left in the dark as our needs change over the course of our lives: whether it's after having children, developing health issues, or navigating perimenopause.Enriched with experiences from thousands of users of The Lowdown (the world's first contraceptive review platform and community), the medical expertise of their in-house team, and the latest clinical guidance and scientific research, Contraception is a book for anyone who wants to take control of their health. This comprehensive resource provides valuable insights into your reproductive health, covering topics such as managing conditions like endometriosis and PCOS, understanding what to expect during an abortion, planning for pregnancy after using contraception and navigating the changes that come with menopause. With zero bias or BS, this book is your essential guide to separating the myths from the medicine.
Contraception: From the experts at The Lowdown: Your essential guide to separating the myths from the medicine
by Alice Pelton Dr Frances Yarlett Dr Melanie Davis-HallThe choices we make with our contraception can have wide-ranging consequences for our health, and yet as a recent survey showed, nearly 80 per cent of women continue to suffer with side effects. Is this good enough in the 21st century?Choosing the right option is a frequently bewildering journey, littered with trial and error, misinformation, and confusion. With so many pill brands on the market, each with different formulations and potential side effects, it can feel impossible to find the one that's right for us. We are also often left in the dark as our needs change over the course of our lives: whether it's after having children, developing health issues, or navigating perimenopause.Enriched with experiences from thousands of users of The Lowdown (the world's first contraceptive review platform and community), the medical expertise of their in-house team, and the latest clinical guidance and scientific research, Contraception is a book for anyone who wants to take control of their health. This comprehensive resource provides valuable insights into your reproductive health, covering topics such as managing conditions like endometriosis and PCOS, understanding what to expect during an abortion, planning for pregnancy after using contraception and navigating the changes that come with menopause. With zero bias or BS, this book is your essential guide to separating the myths from the medicine.
Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future
by Development Committee on Contraceptive ResearchThe "contraceptive revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s introduced totally new contraceptive options and launched an era of research and product development. Yet by the late 1980s, conditions had changed and improvements in contraceptive products, while very important in relation to improved oral contraceptives, IUDs, implants, and injectables, had become primarily incremental. Is it time for a second contraceptive revolution and how might it happen?Contraceptive Research and Development explores the frontiers of science where the contraceptives of the future are likely to be found and lays out criteria for deciding where to make the next R&D investments.The book comprehensively examines today's contraceptive needs, identifies "niches" in those needs that seem most readily translatable into market terms, and scrutinizes issues that shape the market: method side effects and contraceptive failure, the challenge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and the implications of the "women's agenda."Contraceptive Research and Development analyzes the response of the pharmaceutical industry to current dynamics in regulation, liability, public opinion, and the economics of the health sector and offers an integrated set of recommendations for public- and private-sector action to meet a whole new generation of demand.
Contraceptive Research, Introduction, and Use: Lessons from Norplant
by Subcommittee for Workshop on Implant Contraceptives: An Illuminating Case Study in Current Dilemmas PossibilitiesAs the first real contraceptive innovation in over 20 years, and as a long-acting method requiring clinical intervention for application and removal, the implantable contraceptive Norplant has raised a wide range of issues that could offer valuable lessons about the problems to be addressed if other new contraceptive technologies are to enter the marketplace. In April 1997 an Institute of Medicine workshop on implant contraceptives reviewed newly available data on Norplant's efficacy, safety, and use; identified lessons to be learned about the method's development, introduction, use, and market experience; and explored approaches to developing and introducing new contraceptives based on those lessons. This resulting book contains an examination of Norplant's efficacy and safety, its user populations, training for insertion and removal, consumer perspectives (quality of care, informed decisionmaking, and consumer involvement), and new approaches to contraceptive development and introduction. An appendix contains summaries of 17 workshop presentations.
Contradictions: Neuroscience and Religion (Springer Praxis Books)
by José M. Musacchio"Contradictions" is a general interest book that exposes the incompatibility between popular religious beliefs and the scientific view of human nature. It begins with a survey of the evolution of religions and their continuing, often irrational, influences in modern society. Then, based on his long experience in neuroscience, the author takes issue with Decartes about the duality of body and soul. He presents case studies of patients with brain diseases and from these deduces that the soul, far from being separate and supernatural, is no more or less than our way of experiencing our brains ... and which correspondingly disintegrates when they do. Convincing clinical findings and powerful arguments about the universality of truth make this book a bold contribution to the debate about belief and religion in the modern world.
Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict
by Patrick J CarnesThis resource identifies the stages and progression of sex addiction, including assessment, intervention, and treatment methods.This resource identifies the stages and progression of sex addiction, including assessment, intervention, and treatment methods. It also covers family structure, bonding, boundaries, and recovery topics.
Control Your Dreams: How Lucid Dreaming Can Help You Uncover Your Hidden Fears & Explore the Frontiers of Human Consciousness
by Jane Bosveld Jayne GackenbachThe authors reveal how dreaming can help you uncover your hidden desires and confront your hidden fears. With exercises and techniques taken from the most up-to-date scientific dream research, readers learn how to use dreaming for creative work, healing, and meditation.
Control as Movement
by Jairo Nunes Cedric Boeckx Norbert HornsteinThe Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but binding, and analogizes control to raising, albeit with one important distinction: whereas the target of movement in control structures is a theta position, in raising it is a non-theta position; however the grammatical procedures underlying the two constructions are the same. This book presents the main arguments for MTC and shows it to have many theoretical advantages, the biggest being that it reduces the kinds of grammatical operations that the grammar allows, an important advantage in a minimalist setting. It also addresses the main arguments against MTC, using examples from control shift, adjunct control, and the control structure of 'promise', showing MTC to be conceptually, theoretically, and empirically superior to other approaches.
Control del estrés
by Ph. D. Hiriyappa. B Ines J. RotaecheDr.Hiriyappa.B, es un Ph.D., MPhil., Coodinador de MCom., Centro de Postgrado, Departamento de Comercio. Es professor, entrenador, orador y consultante en el area de “Management”. El estrés es tema común en la vida de todos nosotros. Suele estar asociado a los momentos más felices y, también, más peligrosos de la existencia. Estrés, estrés, estrés ... ¿es un fenómeno general y universal? Gran parte de la humanidad sufre de acumulación de estrés, que resulta difícil de manejar por la vida que llevamos y la actitud ante la misma. El términos "estrés" suele estar asociado a una experiencia negativa de un individuo. Podemos hablar de "angustia", el aspecto negativo del estrés, o "eustress", el aspecto positivo. La angustia se puede controlar y se puede aprender a convertir en eustress. El conocimiento de esta fórmula transmite felicidad y da lugar a una vida próspera y en paz ante los problemas que se presentan. Todos podemos disfrutar de este concepto. El libro está dividido en seis capítulos: Estrés, Síntomas de estrés, Tipos de estrés, Estrés en el lugar de trabajo, Cómo manejar el estrés en el trabajo y Técnicas para controlar el estrés. Las distintas variedades de estrés suman bronca, ansiedad y depresión, con consecuencias tanto en el cuerpo como en la mente. El resultado puede ser cansancio, enfermedad o la incapacidad de concentrarse o pensar claramente y de tomar las decisiones correctas en el área laboral. Una gran acumulación de estrés puede llegar a ser la causante de una crisis nerviosa.
Control of Breathing during Sleep: From Bench to Bedside
by Susmita Chowdhuri M Safwan Badr James A RowleyThis book describes control of ventilation during sleep in both health and disease states. The topics are presented in a fashion that can be easily comprehended with many figures to illustrate complex concepts. Thus, a wide range of topics, starting from the site of normal respiratory rhythm generation to chemoreceptor control of sleep apnea, description of the apneic threshold, pathophysiology of upper airway closure, novel techniques to measure control of breathing, effect of cerebral blood flow on breathing, effect of opioids on ventilation, effect of heart failure on ventilation, genetic aspects of breathing disorders, age and gender differences, and various therapies are discussed. Key Features • Helps to bridge the gap between straight forward physiology and clinical practice through a range of topics and use of case vignettes• Explores various aspects of clinical management and control which is beneficial to sleep clinicians, respiratory physiologists, intensivists, trainees, and researchers.• Distills complex concepts into understandable language and figures, providing helping resource to the clinicians, that transforms a dry topic vis a viz control of ventilation into an exciting understandable ‘clinician’ language.
Controle a Autoimunidade: Assuma o Controle e Viva a Vida que Sempre Quis
by Gregg HavenVocê está sofrendo de desordem autoimune e está perdido sobre o que fazer para reverter sua condição? Mesmo que você supra seu corpo com nutrientes ou se prive deles, ainda assim você se sente facilmente fraco e cansado, além de ser incapaz de se recuperar do jeito que você gostaria? Não se preocupe, você não está sozinho. Milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo passam pelo mesmo problema sem uma adequada solução comprovada para corrigir sua condição. O Controle a Autoimunidade está prestes a mudar tudo isso. Este livro ajudará a corrigir os erros que você está cometendo e que estão agravando sua condição. Ele ajudará a colocar em prática as mudanças necessárias para melhorar e controlar sua condição autoimune! Neste livro você vai aprender sobre: Mitos, fatos e origens da condição autoimune Tolerância a histamina A solução que começa pelo seu intestino Escolher os melhores alimentos para você O milagre do descanso e os danos do estresse O que você precisa fazer para reduzir a inflamação Erros mais comuns Benefícios da nutrição, exercício físico e um plano de refeição adequado apenas para você! E muito mais! Benefícios de seguir o Controle a Autoimunidade incluem: Melhor gestão da condição autoimune Aumento do conteúdo nutricional no corpo Redução da inflamação Níveis elevados de energia Melhor compreensão e tratamento Função imunológica aprimorada Intestino saudável Mais qualidade de vida Não espere mais! Vá até o topo da página, clique no botão Comprar Agora e comece hoje a caminhar em direção a uma vida melhor e mais saudável!
Controlla lo Stress e le Paure
by Gustavo KinrysControlla lo Stress e le Paure: Una guida per curare l'ansia e i disordini dovuti a traumi del Dott. Gustavo Kinrys Una veloce guida consultiva per chi preferisce tentare una soluzione naturale o alternativa prima di passare ai trattamenti convenzionali come i farmaci. Quando si realizza che ansia, stress e paura prevalgono su ogni aspetto della propria vita, il primo pensiero è quello di sbarazzarsi di tutte queste sensazioni soffocanti. Come ci si può riappropriare di quei preziosi minuti di vita ed essere veramente in pace con la propria mente? Controlla lo Stress e le Paure del Dott. Gustavo Kinrys vi guiderà in modo facile e veloce attraverso le varie opzioni per contrastare queste sensazioni naturalmente, prima di passare ai trattamenti e ai farmaci convenzionali. Dagli integratori come estratti d'erbe o vitamine, alla meditazione, ma anche alle tecnologie emergenti, questa guida vi dirà quel che c'è da sapere sull'uso e i dosaggi, attraverso istruzioni dettagliate e facili da seguire, per portarvi sulla giusta strada del benessere.
Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies
by Carol Ann Rinzler Martin W. GrafNeed to get your cholesterol in check? You'll find the latest information about cholesterol, including treatments, drug information, and dietary advice, in Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition, an easy-to-understand guide to cholesterol control. You'll learn how to lower your numbers and maintain healthy cholesterol levels. You'll also find out how to eat and exercise properly, use vitamins and supplements, and quit unhealthy habits.You'll find out cholesterol's positive functions and why too much can be a bad thing. You can also assess your cholesterol risk by taking your age, sex, ethnicity, and family history into consideration. Find out what you need to ask your doctor about stress tests, ECBT, and angiograms to check for plaque buildup. Design a cholesterol-crushing diet and understand which foods can help you lower your numbers. Find out how smoking, alcohol, exercise, excess weight, supplements, and prescription medications affect your cholesterol levels. Find out how to:Assess your cholesterol riskUnderstand the benefits and risks associated with cholesterolDesign and adhere to a cholesterol-lowering dietAvoid dangerous drugsReduce your risk of heart attackChoose fats and fibers correctlyCheck for plaque buildupComplete with lists of ten important cholesterol websites, ten nutrition websites, ten cholesterol myths, ten landmarks in cholesterol history, ten foods that raise your cholesterol, and ten foods that lower your cholesterol, Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help keep your cholesterol levels under control for good!
Controlling Cholesterol the Natural Way: Eat Your Way to Better Health with New Breakthrough Food Discoveries
by William Proctor Kenneth H. CooperDr. Kenneth H. Cooper's all-new plan to lower cholesterol without drugs! The Old News: Elevated levels of cholesterol put you at risk for heart attack and stroke. The New News: Now you can control cholesterol naturally! Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, a leading authority on controlling cholesterol, shares his all-new plan for balancing your blood lipids--without drugs and without side effects. Drawing on clinical trials and the most up-to-date medical research, Dr. Cooper explains how exciting new food discoveries can give you a revolutionary new way to manage your cholesterol. Inside you'll discover: How the new functional foods, such as Benecol and Take Control, can lower bad cholesterol while improving the ratio between good and bad cholesterol in only three weeks How these "anti-cholesterol" foods work, why they are safe to use, and who should use them How Dr. Cooper's approach can end--or greatly reduce--your use of prescription cholesterol-lowering medications Expert advice on diet and exercise, including recipes and more amazing nutritional discoveries And much more You don't have to go farther than your fridge to find an effective, nonprescription cholesterol-controlling product.
Controlling Cholesterol: Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's Preventive Medicine Program
by Kenneth H. CooperDr. Kenneth H. Cooper's all-new plan to lower cholesterol without drugs! The Old News: Elevated levels of cholesterol put you at risk for heart attack and stroke. The New News: Now you can control cholesterol naturally! Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, a leading authority on controlling cholesterol, shares his all-new plan for balancing your blood lipids--without drugs and without side effects. Drawing on clinical trials and the most up-to-date medical research, Dr. Cooper explains how exciting new food discoveries can give you a revolutionary new way to manage your cholesterol. Inside you'll discover: How the new functional foods, such as Benecol and Take Control, can lower bad cholesterol while improving the ratio between good and bad cholesterol in only three weeks. How these "anti-cholesterol" foods work, why they are safe to use, and who should use them How Dr. Cooper's approach can end--or greatly reduce--your use of prescriptio. Expert advice on diet and exercise, including recipes and more amazing nutritional discoveries. And much more. You don't have to go farther than your fridge to find an effective, nonprescription cholesterol-controlling product.
Controlling Crohn's Disease: The Natural Way
by Virginia HarperTake Control Of Your Symptoms--Naturally!More than a million Americans suffer the pain, fevers, and bleeding of Crohn's disease, colitis, and other incurable inflammatory bowel disorders (IBDs), whose numbers are rising every year. While most patients are treated with harsh prescription drugs or invasive surgery, these merely mask or postpone the symptoms.All her life, author Virginia Harper had suffered from the debilitating effects of Crohn's disease. Even with heavy medication her symptoms persisted, and so she turned to a natural treatment regimen consisting of simple changes in diet and lifestyle. The results were truly remarkable. Within a year, she was not only pain-free, but symptom-free. Some twenty years later, Virginia's diarrhea, painful indigestion, cramps and bleeding have never returned. In this important book, she shares her life-changing experiences with you. You'll learn about the eating program that has worked for her: which foods to consume, their preparation, and how to combine them in the most effective ways. You'll also receive her advice on easy activities to help restore your energy. Plus she discusses the latest drugs and surgical procedures, including their side effects, and tells you how to work with your doctor to become a more effective partner in your IBD treatment.With Controlling IBD, you can begin your own journey to reclaiming health and vitality. So let the healing begin!
Controlling High Blood Pressure the Natural Way
by David L. Carroll Wahida KarmallyOf the countless ailments that rack the human machine, high blood pressure is one of the easiest to prevent and one of the most responsive to treatment. Who gets high blood pressure? Should you panic if you or someone you love develops hypertension? How can you help yourself, even if you're in a high-risk group? High blood pressure is commonly the result of an unhealthy lifestyle, and it can almost always be controlled--without debilitating medications--simply by eating the right foods, taking the proper herb and vitamin supplements, getting the correct types of exercise, and practicing such stress-reducing techniques as meditation, visualization, tai chi, and yoga. This book gives you a firm grip on all these tools. Start using them today to build yourself a healthy, circulation-friendly life. FEATURING: - A triple-threat healing program that not only revitalizes your circulation system but also boosts your overall health - A thirty-day food regimen--ninety full menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus many recipes for delicious foods to eat as you control hypertension
Controlling High Blood Pressure through Nutrition, Supplements, Lifestyle and Drugs
by Mark C. Houston Lee BellControlling High Blood Pressure through Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Lifestyle, and Drugs helps prevent and treat high blood pressure and hypertension, the most common primary diagnosis in the United States and a leading cause of heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, and stroke. Written by two leading experts in nutrition and hypertension, it takes an integrative and evidence-based approach based on scientific research and clinical studies. It explains what causes high blood pressure and includes easy-to-follow solutions for patients that help to treat and prevent it. These include: The ideal drugs to reduce blood pressure with fewest side effects and optimal efficacy A nutrition program to reduce weight and lower the risk of a cardiovascular problem A comprehensive review of nutritional supplements to improve blood pressure control and reduce cardiovascular disease A review of lifestyle changes to improve blood pressure such as a detailed exercise program. This book is for doctors, nutritionists, naturopaths, pharmacists and other health practitioners as well as anyone with a family history of hypertension or overt blood pressure issues that would like to make better and healthier lifestyle choices.
Controlling Your Drinking: Tools to Make Moderation Work for You
by Ricardo F. Murioz William R. MillerAn easy-to-read guide to moderate drinking.
Controversial Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials (Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series)
by Shein-Chung ChowIn clinical trial practice, controversial statistical issues inevitably occur regardless of the compliance with good statistical practice and good clinical practice. But by identifying the causes of the issues and correcting them, the study objectives of clinical trials can be better achieved. Controversial Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials cov
Controversies in Exercise Science
by Thomas RowlandControversies in Exercise Science introduces a series of selected unresolved issues in the field of human exercise science. The common thread to all of these topics is that, in their ultimate resolution, they offer promise of insights into the essential principles of physiological systems and how these respond to the stresses of exercise. Each case study includes an examination of research surrounding each issue; the innovative aspect, however, will be that each of these controversies will be presented in the context of an historical and/or philosophical perspective. These chapter include topics related to basic exercise physiology, sports, physical activity, and exercise health. Underlying each of these debates lie clues which may offer insights into the basic nature of living beings. Aimed at both academics and practitioners in the fields of exercise science, biology, and related sports science disciplines, Controversies in Exercise Science provides arguments for both sides of several selected contemporary controversies in the field of exercise science and, while no ultimate resolution will be provided, the goal is, rather, to offer the reader sufficient "raw material" on which he or she might make their own judgement on the matters presented.
Controversies in Obstetric Anesthesia and Analgesia
by Ian McconachieMcConachie (anesthesia and perioperative medicine, U. of Western Ontario, Canada) assembles 21 articles by obstetrics practitioners caring for high-risk patients at the University of Western Ontario and in the UK who outline debates in obstetric anesthesia and analgesia used in the perioperative and perinatal periods, for trainees and practitioners in anesthesia, obstetrics, and critical care medicine, as well as nurses and midwives. They address substance abuse and cardiac disease in pregnancy; management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, hemorrhage, and postdural puncture headache; anesthetic drugs and the developing fetal brain; ultrasound-guided epidural anesthesia, combined spinal-epidural anesthesia, and other types; coagulation and regional anesthesia; ambulatory and patient-controlled epidural analgesia; hypotension following spinal anesthesia; outcomes; cesarean section airway management, oxygen supplementation, oxytocin use and dosage, and analgesia; and other topics. Basic knowledge and experience in obstetric physiology, pharmacology, and anesthesia is assumed. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Controversies in Testosterone Deficiency
by John P. Mulhall Mario Maggi Landon TrostThis book aims to address a number of controversies concerning the use of testosterone treatment. It explains topics that clinicians regularly encounter such as whether to use free or total testosterone in the evaluation of the patient with testosterone deficiency; what factors actually impact testosterone levels, polycythemia, gynecomastia, bone density, and hyperprolactinemia in the testosterone deficient patient; critical analysis of the numerous questionnaires that are available to clinicians; and the impact of testosterone therapy on male fertility, cardiovascular disease, and prostate events including prostate cancer. Guiding the reader in both evaluation and management, the book also illuminates novel concepts in the T space such as testosterone use in the transgender population, T therapy as an endothelial modulator, bipolar testosterone therapy in the patient with advanced prostate cancer, and testosterone therapy as a performance enhancer.Controversies in Testosterone Deficiency is intended for any clinician involved in the care of patients with testosterone deficiency, exploring hot topics and correcting existent misinformation in the routine care of patients.