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Strive to keep your practice up-to-date in 2010 with the publication of the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use.
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Clinicians face challenges when it comes to detecting ovarian cancer: 70% of women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with advanced disease.
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Research indicates that women are at risk for heightened HIV infection during pregnancy, but what about their partners?
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For 50 years, women have had a reliable form of birth control in the form of the combined oral contraceptive pill. What has emerged in the same time period for men?
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Heads up for reproductive health and family planning clinics in California and Nevada: The Female Health Co.'s free FC2 Female Condom Experience Program is headed your way. Deadline for applications from clinics in the two states is Aug. 31, 2010, says Rebecca Kizaric, training manager for the Chicago-based company.
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Add current data to your clinical knowledge base: the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued updated recommendations for routine and catch-up vaccination of females with the bivalent or quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccines (HPV2, HPV4), as well as published its policy statement and summarized background data on use of the HPV4 vaccine in males.
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Providing seamless enrollment procedures is still a work in progress for state Medicaid programs under the current eligibility system, but doing so under health care reform is a health information technology (HIT) challenge of epic proportions.
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With Medicaid enrollment increases of 3,000 a month showing no signs of slowing, having already made virtually all possible cuts to the program, and facing a projected $3 billion shortfall in the state, Charles Duarte, administrator for Nevada's Division of Health Care Financing and Policy, describes the process of planning for an estimated 150,000 more people coming onto the program as one of "cognitive fiscal dissonance."
