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When discussing contraceptive options with your female patients, what choices are available at your facility? If they include the contraceptive patch (Ortho Evra, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Raritan, NJ) and the contraceptive vaginal ring (NuvaRing, Organon, West Orange, NJ), you join the majority of respondents to the 2003 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey.
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A total of 215 providers participated in the 2003 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey, which monitors contraceptive trends and family planning issues among readers.
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The next patient on your schedule is a 41-year-old woman who smokes 12-15 cigarettes a day. She would like to use combined oral contraceptives (OCs). Will she leave your office with a prescription for the Pill?
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Just six years ago, a national report asked, Is the secret getting out? when it comes to emergency contraception (EC).1 If results of the 2003 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey are any indication, ECs message now is being heard loud and clear.
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ACNM web site offers breast-feeding resources; New condom now available from Trojan; New Arabic web site offers EC information
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Seasonale (Barr Laboratories, Pomona, NY), the first extended-cycle oral contraceptive (12 weeks continuous daily active pill followed by a one-week inactive pill) approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to become clinically available by the end of this month.
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Failure to control pain or to provide health care in accordance with
a patients wishes is a matter of consumer protection, according to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. He says he hopes the 49 other attorneys general in the United States will see matters the same way.
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Attorneys general should play a role in advising state agencies and educating others about how laws and policies related to end-of-life care should be enforced, especially if they seem to be at odds with patient rights. The most salient example of this conflict has been the ongoing battle between end-of-life care advocates and law enforcement agencies.
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Although Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson focused his year-long presidency of the National Association of Attorneys General on improving end-of-life care and urging his colleagues to take a more active role in protecting terminally ill patients, several of his colleagues are at the forefront of changing state policies and affecting provider and consumer behavior.
