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When HIV is not diagnosed until women go into labor, their infants usually are treated soon after birth with the antiretroviral drug zidovudine to prevent infant infection.
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Amphora, under development by Evofem of San Diego, is a bioadhesive acid-buffering gel that coats the vaginal wall and cervix. Amphora helps maintain a woman's natural pH level between 3.8 and 4.2.
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Trichomoniasis is the most common curable sexually transmitted infection (STI) in young, sexually active women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 7.4 million new cases occur each year in U.S. women and men.
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Four hundred thousand (1.6% of U.S. adolescents) experience serious physical and/or sexual dating violence each year.
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Since results of the 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report suggested that use of menopausal hormone therapy increases risk of coronary heart disease, science has examined the timing of therapy initiation on safe use of such treatment.
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Is your facility participating in National HIV Testing Day on June 27? If not, you may be missing an important community outreach opportunity to help people learn their HIV status.
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The investigators prospectively enrolled and followed a cohort of 97 teens before and six, 12, and 18 months after starting DMPA.
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To improve patient safety by encouraging healthcare providers to speak up about their concerns, risk managers should focus on the influences that have the strongest effect on behavior, suggest the authors of The Silent Treatment, conducted by VitalSmarts, a corporate training company in Provo, UT, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.
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When a surgeon at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, NY, performed a procedure on the wrong side of a patient's back in 2008, the sentinel event stunned the hospital's administration. But it wasn't long before hospital leaders were formulating a plan to make sure it never happened again.
