Patients who don't respond to their antidepressant should be evaluated carefully for compliance, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, and social stressors. Switching drugs or combination therapy may be warranted.

This patient handout explains that left-heart catheterization with coronary angiography is the gold standard test for significant coronary disease.

This brief review helps you to make sure that expectant parents in your practice know all the current ways to reduce the risk of SIDS.

Patients whose family members have breast, ovarian, or prostate cancer will want to know their risk of disease and if there's anything the can do to reduce it.

The benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy are updated. The patient handout provides answers to patients' most frequently asked questions.

A strong clinician-patient relation is crucial in the treatment of women with sexual dysfunction, such as anorgasmia.

A National Institutes of Health study reported that hospitalizations for heart failure (HF) have increased significantly since 1980. Considering that 5 million people in the United States are currently living with HF, PAs need to be proactive in caring for this special patient population.

Electron beam CT (EBCT) can accurately detect and quantify the degree of calcified atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries.

Over the past several years, the hormonal contraceptive market has become quite diverse. The oral contraceptive pill (OCP) was introduced in 1960, and today the market has expanded to include injections, vaginal rings, transdermal patches, drug-eluting intrauterine devices (IUDs), and subdermal implants.

Nuclear cardiology studies are used to evaluate heart function, as well as the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD). Radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with single photon emission computedtomography (SPECT) is one of the most commonly used noninvasive methods for assessing CAD.