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Good news: Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that teen birth rates fell at least 15% for all but two states (North Dakota and West Virginia) during 2007-2011, with rates falling 30% or more in seven states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Minnesota, Nevada, and Utah.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its first U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (US SPR) in the June 21, 2013, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. These practice recommendations address common, yet complex, issues surrounding initiating and using several contraceptive methods, and they serve as a resource for clinicians, including those who care for adolescents.
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More patients who received a preventive medicine intervention also had their physician receive the corresponding preventive intervention.
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Uncomplicated cellulitis, defined as cellulitis without abscess, is most often caused by streptococci.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from an acutely ill but alert and hemodynamically stable patient. How certain are you that the rhythm is ventricular tachycardia (VT)? Might there be another explanation if the patient in question was a young adult with renal disease and diabetes?
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The majority of patients with advanced cancer have decisional capacity at the time of their terminal hospitalization but lose that capacity before having an end-of-life discussion.
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Patients seen in emergency departments (ED) for acute chest pain who are deemed low risk for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and relatively safe for discharge are often referred to their primary care physician (PCP) for follow-up.
