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If women could directly access hormonal contraception in pharmacies without a prescription, would they be interested in doing so, provided that pharmacists screen for the methods? A new survey indicates they would.
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Which drugs might impact the efficacy of the birth control pill? Comments are offered by Andrew Kaunitz, MD, professor and assistant chair in the obstetrics and gynecology department at the University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville, and Susan Wysocki, RNC, NP, president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Womens Health.
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Put syphilis testing on your radar screen: Updated guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommend that health care providers perform syphilis screening on pregnant women and people who are at high risk for syphilis infection.
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Elevated serum uric acid is a marker for
cardiovascular mortality.
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In patients with symptomatic nonerosive reflux disease, intermittent on-demand therapy with the PPI rabeprazole provided good symptom control with tablets taken on average approximately 1 day out of 4.
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Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors decreased the number of defibrillation attempts needed and reduced hospitalization in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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12-lead ECG obtained from a healthy, asymptomatic 42-year-old man. How many findings can you identify?
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The National Cholesterol Education Program, a product of a collaboration of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association, has updated its clinical practice guideline on cholesterol management.
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