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Check the statistics for post-vasectomy follow-up tests at your family planning clinic. How many men are returning for semen analysis following their sterilization procedures?
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Your next patient is a 35-year-old mother of three and has a body mass index of 36. She says she is interested in permanent birth control. What are her options?
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While running for president in 2000, then-Republican candidate George W. Bush promised that his answer to the problem of teenage pregnancy would be to dramatically increase federal funding for abstinence-only education. Sure enough, President Bush has made good on that pledge.
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How can homeless youth be reached with services for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)? New research indicates good results can be achieved through field-based STD testing, field-delivered therapy, and patient-delivered partner therapy.
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Recruiting and retaining volunteers is likely to become a more challenging task as current societal trends continue, including the increasing time crunch many families experience.
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A regional hospice's community educators were challenged to cover 35 counties across two states, making it difficult to get the word out about hospice to health care providers and the community.
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Hospices sometimes find it challenging to meet a community's needs in end of life planning and bereavement services, since these are only a small part of the services a hospice provides.
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Making end-of-life decisions for incapacitated patients most often falls to surrogates chosen by the patients, or to next of kin.
