Word: women
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ACOG is a professional group representing more than 40,000 physicians involved in women's care. It issues periodic recommendations, based on a patient's age and risk factors, on what types of screening, evaluation and counseling should be part of a woman's routine exams. The new recommendations replace a set issued two years...
...hepatitis A and hepatitis C. The hepatitis-A vaccine is being recommended for groups at high risk for the disease, including international travelers, drug users and workers in the food-service, health-care or day-care industry. The test for hepatitis-C virus has been added for all women 13 and older and for women at particularly high risk (women who take intravenous drugs and those who received an organ transplant or a blood transfusion before...
Diabetes testing is another major change. A glucose test is now recommended every three years for all women over age 45--not just for those known to be at high risk for diabetes. ACOG also changed its definition of high risk, expanding it to include women in ethnic groups that are disproportionately vulnerable: African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans...
...opinion, and like any good doctor, I replied, "When did you have your last complete physical and blood tests?" The time it took for her to remember was answer enough. Not only had it been too long, but she hadn't been given basic blood tests that most women should have on a periodic basis. So when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists revised its screening recommendations for women two weeks ago, I immediately sent a copy...
...high-risk group was expanded as well. In addition to tests for pregnant women, ACOG now recommends HIV tests for all women seeking preconception care and any woman with invasive cervical cancer, regardless...