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Blue Cross of California State Sponsored Business takes a comprehensive approach to asthma management, partnering with the Fresno Valley Air Quality Board on ways to improve air quality in Fresno County.
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When members of Passport Health Plan are hospitalized in the intensive care unit for asthma, the plan's asthma disease managers visit them on-site and work with the hospital's asthma educator to help them learn to manage their disease.
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The 9th annual Health Care Education Association conference is scheduled for Sept. 20-22 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta.
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To improve patient education, institutions must develop competent teachers.
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Mary Szczepanik, MS, BSN, RN, manager of cancer education, support, and outreach for OhioHealth Cancer Services in Columbus, says there are different ways of teaching, and nurses should determine what works best for them.
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Caregivers at Hamot Medical Center in Erie, PA, are using a video interpreting program that allows deaf patients "to be treated as quickly as anyone else."
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just given approval to Seasonique (Duramed Pharmaceuticals; Pomona, NY), an extended-regimen oral contraceptive (OC).
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Women who switch to the NuvaRing contraceptive vaginal ring (Organon, Roseland, NJ) from other forms of hormonal contraception experience reduced hormone-related adverse events, according to results from a study presented at the recent European Society of Contraception in Istanbul, Turkey.1
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Your next patient is a 35-year-old mother of two who is experiencing ongoing heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia). Recently remarried, she says she may want to have a child in the future with her new partner. What are your treatment options?
