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Should Family Planning Clinics Volunteer to Vaccinate Patients?

One of the biggest challenges this spring will be to find enough trained medical staff and ambulatory sites to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people within a six- to seven-month time frame. Family planning centers might be lower on the priority list for vaccination because they serve a younger population.

Providers Can Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy Among Staff

As the COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out in the United States, many healthcare workers refused vaccination. Reproductive healthcare centers will need to obtain staff buy-in as they begin a vaccination program.

How Family Planning Providers Can Handle Challenges of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

The coronavirus vaccine rollout faces challenges from logistical supply issues and vaccine hesitancy among healthcare staff and the general public. From a reproductive health provider perspective, the big question is how to handle the rollout and overcome challenges on both the supply and demand sides.

Why Does This WCT Change Its Shape?

Imagine there was no history for the ECG shown in the figure. How would one interpret this tracing?

Remdesivir Injection and Baricitinib Tablets

Baricitinib/remdesivir should be used to treat suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in hospitalized adults and pediatric patients ≥ age 2 years who require supplemental oxygen, invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Using Sacubitril/Valsartan to Treat Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

An analysis of renal outcomes in the PARAGON-HF trial revealed sacubitril/valsartan slows progression of kidney disease in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction compared to valsartan alone.

Virtual Visits and Antibiotic Prescribing

Compared to in-person visits, virtual visits were associated with improved antibiotic prescribing practices for women with uncomplicated urinary tract infections.

Vegan Diets May Cause More Fractures

Living as a vegan or vegetarian is a choice and can benefit one’s health. However, clinicians should educate patients about potential risks, including bone fractures. Appropriate supplementation might prevent these complications.

Honey, Can You Stop Coughing?

Since there is little to offer those with upper respiratory infections, honey represents a low-risk, inexpensive, and easily accessible alternative that seems reasonable to suggest to patients.

A Prescription for Volunteering

This large, observational study of U.S. adults aged older than 50 years found that volunteering ≥ 100 hours yearly is associated with a reduced risk of mortality and several favorable psychosocial outcomes when compared with peers reporting 0 volunteer hours yearly.