To the Editor: In the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences (Women's CARE) Study, Marchbanks et al. (June 27 issue)¹ carefully verified previous investigations showing that there is no association between combination oral contraceptives and ...

To the Editor: We agree with Hansen et al. (March 7 issue)¹ that many studies of birth defects after in vitro fertilization suffer from methodologic problems, but we believe that their study has similar limitations. The authors compared the outcomes of ...

To the Editor: Schieve et al. (March 7 issue)¹ suggest that the observed increase in the risk of low birth weight among singleton infants conceived with assisted reproductive technology is more likely to be due to the treatment than to an underlying ...

To the Editor: Castellsagué et al. (April 11 issue)¹ did not correct for several of the major known risk factors for cervical cancer: race or ethnic group, smoking, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, poor diet, long-term use of oral ...

To the Editor: According to the article by Geng et al. (May 9 issue),¹ the majority of cases of active tuberculosis in the New York City area are now reactivation cases in recently arrived immigrants. However, current guidelines advise chemoprophylaxis ...

To the Editor: Dr. Foster (June 13 issue)¹ highlights the epic tragedy of AIDS orphans in Africa and the absolute necessity of providing highly active antiretroviral therapy to adults in Africa. Current initiatives of the United Nations Program on HIV/...

To the Editor: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the leading cause of water-borne epidemics of hepatitis in many developing countries in Asia and Africa, where high mortality has been reported among infected pregnant women.¹ Recently, it has become clear that ...

James S. Olson has taken on the task of recounting the entire history of breast cancer — from Queen Atossa, who lived in Babylon in 490 b.c., to Dr. Jerri Nielsen, who was trapped in Antarctica in 1999 — and has done it in a concise, attractive, enjoyable ...

Less than a decade ago, as the editor-in-chief of American Psychiatric Press, I asked a senior colleague for an opinion about publishing a book on women's mental health. I was told that there were insufficient data to generate a full-length book and that ...

This is the third edition of a book that was previously titled Stress and Women Physicians. A new author, Erica Frank, has been added, as have data from the Women Physicians' Health Study, of which Frank is the principal investigator. With these additions,...