It's much less common than premenstrual syndrome, but it can have a severe impact on your patient's quality of life. Here's how to recognize it and alleviate the symptoms.

Until now, we’ve only evaluated gel’s impact on test results Studies comparing lubricating gel and water have conclusively shown that a small amount of gel, used on the outside of the speculum blades, does not interfere with either Pap testing or detection of Chlamydia trachomatis. One liquid-based cytology manufacturer, however, discourages the use of lubricants with “carbomers” or “carbopol p...

The impact of the post-meltdown Federal Reserve policy of ultra-low interest rates and Quantitative Easing (QE) on income and wealth inequality has become an important policy and political issue. Critics have argued that by raising asset prices, near-zero interest rates and QE have significantly contributed to increases in inequality, while practitioners of central banking, counter that the dis...

Although a promising idea, the Semantic Web currently seems to have a problem duplicating the success story of its predecessor, the World Wide Web. The number of people actively participating in the Semantic Web has been very limited until now, because people can't see the bene ts originating from the extra e ort they invest into semantically rich web pages. Unfortunately, this advantage is bar...

S ince the onset of the financial crisis in late 2007, the Federal Reserve has injected an astronomical amount of money into the economy through its large-scale asset purchase (LSAP) programs. According to former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (2009, p. 5), the essence of LSAP is “credit easing” (CE)—that is, reducing the cost of private borrowing by direct purchases of privately issued debt instead...

We present a prototype system to be used for visually accessing heterogeneous databases. The basic idea is to provide the user with several visual representations of data as well as multiple interaction mechanisms for both querying databases and visualizing the query results. Since some visual representations better fit certain user classes, the system adapts to the user’s needs by switching to...

The author's study demonstrates that application of EMLA cream to treatment sites significantly reduces needle pain during Botox administration. Twenty patients receiving 200 Botox injections in the glabellar area experienced a 60% reduction in pain in EMLA-pretreated sites compared with that in matched control sites.

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