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If your practice includes care of pregnant women, be sure to review just-issued interim guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in regard to swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection.
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Women who have been searching for the Today contraceptive sponge on pharmacy shelves can stop hunting: Mayer Laboratories now serves as the U.S. distributor for the over-the-counter contraceptive.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is complying with a federal judge's instruction and is directing the manufacturers of the dedicated emergency contraceptive pill Plan B to make the drug available to 17-year-olds without prescription.
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How is your facility coping with the current economic downturn? Look to the July issue of Contraceptive Technology Update for special focus articles that will report on such up-to-the-moment items as these:
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Findings from two parallel clinical trials in Rakai, Uganda, indicate that heterosexual men who undergo medical circumcision can significantly reduce their risk of acquiring two common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs): herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) and human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major U.S. public health challenge. About 19 million new infections occur each year, with almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 What are you doing to close the gaps when it comes to STD prevention in this age group?
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Once-a-week rosuvastatin therapy was well tolerated in patients with a history of adverse events to one or more statins and led to significantly improved lipoprotein changes.
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We don't have the slightest idea whether evidence of gallbladder dyskinesia should warrant cholecystectomy or not.
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Almost one-fifth of Medicare patients who were discharged from a hospital were rehospitalized within 30 days, and about a third were rehospitalized within 90 days. Most of these readmissions were not planned.
