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What if you could simplify your current protocol for emergency contraception (EC)? Results of a recent international multicenter randomized trial indicate that three effective options exist for emergency contraception.
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How many of your patients have insurance coverage for contraceptives? Get ready to see more of them, as 20 states have passed legislation requiring health plans to pay for contraceptive products.
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Promote womens health issues during the annual observance of National Womens Health Week, scheduled this year for May 11-17. Use the following web sites as resources.
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Editors Note: The following summaries represent a selection of papers from among those presented at the 42nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 27-30, 2002, in San Diego and the 40th annual meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), held October 24-27, 2002, in Chicago.
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FluMist Recommended for FDA Approval; Britain Extends Pet Travel to United States; Nipah Confirmed in Bangladesh.
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The best short-term solution for Medicaids financial problems is a significant infusion of additional federal funds, according to Alan Weil, New Federalism program director at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC.
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As the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to address major concerns about the nations planned smallpox vaccination program and reports circulated that states were not as ready to start Phase 1 vaccinations, two major unions representing health care workers asked for a delay and said they could not recommend that their members volunteer to be vaccinated until major issues were resolved.
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The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy says that survey results supporting a strong abstinence message should influence policy-makers to understand that many teens and adults believe theres a middle ground between abstinence and contraception.
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A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decision to allow managed care organizations to limit and restrict coverage for emergency services for Medicaid recipients lasted just five weeks and never was implemented by states before the administration reversed field in the face of Congressional pressure and rescinded the provision.
