Dr. James Harrison Pickar M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
902 Grant Street Bulger PA, 15019About
Dr. James Pickar is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Bulger, PA. Dr. Pickar specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Pickar can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Pickar can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 1978
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effects of equine oestrogens on markers of vasoactive function in human coronary artery endothelial cells.
- A comparative study of transvaginal uterine ultrasound and endometrial biopsy for evaluating the endometrium of postmenopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy.
- Recent insights into the varying activity of estrogens.
- Hormone replacement therapy: effect of progestin dose and time since menopause on endometrial bleeding.
- The positive predictive value of cervical smears in previously screened postmenopausal women: the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS).
- Relief of vasomotor symptoms and vaginal atrophy with lower doses of conjugated
- Effects of lower doses of conjugated equine estrogens and medroxyprogesterone
- Effects of lower doses of conjugated equine estrogens and medroxyprogesterone acetate on plasma lipids and lipoproteins, coagulation factors, and carbohydrate metabolism.
- Effect of estrogen plus progestin on risk for biliary tract surgery in postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease. The Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study.
- The assessment of bleeding patterns in postmenopausal women during continuous combined hormone replacement therapy: a review of methodology and recommendations for reporting of the data.
- Effect of lower doses of conjugated equine estrogens with and without medroxyprogesterone acetate on bone in early postmenopausal women.
- Menopausal symptoms in older women and the effects of treatment with hormone therapy.
- Coordinate regulation of the production and signaling of retinoic acid by estrogen in the human endometrium.
- Estrogens in postmenopausal women: recent insights.
- Body mass index does not influence response to treatment, nor does body weight change with lower doses of conjugated estrogens and medroxyprogesterone acetate in early postmenopausal women.
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