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  • Meeting the health needs of men: Ensure that your facility stacks up!

    Review the number of services offered at your family planning agency, then check off the number that address the reproductive health needs of men. If your agency is like most of the facilities participating in a recently published survey, you may be serving some male patients, but doing very little to recruit more.
  • Identify the needs, barriers to men’s care

    From adolescence on, most men need information and counseling about sexual and reproductive matters, and they need somewhere reliable to go for related education and health care.
  • Male contraceptives: Research examines options

    When you review birth control options with your female patients, you tick off several items: a shot, a patch, an intravaginal ring, intra-uterine devices, barrier methods, and several types of pills.
  • Vasectomy research eyes enhancement of method

    New developments are arising on the vasectomy front, with researchers taking a look at the effectiveness of different methods of vas deferens occlusion and identifying chemical candidates to help speed up time to vasectomy success.
  • Clinicians change practice when it comes to EC

    Your next patient is a young woman who has pressed for an appointment Monday morning after her boyfriends condom broke on Sunday night. Your formulary calls for use of progestin-only emergency contraception pills (ECPs). What is your next step?
  • Web Sites Target Male Information

    Searching for male-centered information to boost your facilitys services to men?
  • SARS Audio Program Updates Guidelines

    What would happen today if a patient with suspect or probable SARS were admitted to your hospital? To help you prepare for the threat, Thomson American Health Consultants offers the upcoming audio conference: The Resurgence of SARS: Why your hospital may not be as prepared as you think, on Dec. 9, from 2:30-3:30 EST. Let our experts help you answer that and many other critical questions with practical tips and solutions to detect first cases and protect other patients and health care workers.
  • Sourcebook Guides You Through Final EMTALA Rule

    EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Emergency Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect emergency departments and off-campus clinics. In-depth articles, at-a-glance tables, and Q-and-As on real-life situations are presented, and key differences between the "old" EMTALA and the new changes are succinctly explained,
  • Full December 1, 2003, Issue in PDF

  • Patient Safety Alert

    Pediatrics program just the beginning of safety overhaul ; Duke identifies corrective plan of action for patient safety