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Is your clinic seeing more women without insurance coverage whose care is now funded by Medicaid? New statistics from the New York City-based Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) confirm your observations: Researchers estimate that in 2003, one in five women of reproductive age were uninsured, which signals a 10% increase since 2001.
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What is the U.S. market status for two forms of birth control, the single-rod contraceptive implant and the contraceptive sponge? Answers to these questions are provided by Marcia Diljak, spokeswoman for West Orange, NJ-based Organon, and Gene Detroyer, president and chief executive officer of Allendale (NJ) Pharmaceuticals.
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Need to brush up on your knowledge of current treatment practices when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)? The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDCs) Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases is offering new on-line STD education modules.
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Circle June 12-15, 2005, on the calendar to attend the 2005 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta.
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As you tell the patient in front of you that she has a positive test for chlamydia, you explain the importance of having her boyfriend treated. You encourage her to have the boyfriend come in for care, but what are the odds that you will see him?
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To adequately address the complexity and breadth of maxillofacial trauma, this article reviews the anatomy, recognition of common injury patterns, and initial stabilization. A second article will address specific injuries in detail, diagnostic imaging, definitive management, and appropriate consultation and disposition strategies.
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With advances in diagnostic modalities and shunting procedures, children with hydrocephalus now do amazingly well. Unfortunately, not only do these children get common childhood illnesses, but they also may develop life-threatening complications from their shunting devices that have very similar clinical presentations to common childhood diseases. To effectively and efficiently manage these children, the emergency physician must have a clear understanding of the technology used and of the potential risks and complications that may develop.
