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Combined Hormonal Contraception and Migraine — Add Clinical Information to Your Practice
What do you know when it comes to prescribing combined hormonal methods for women with migraines? A new two-part Association of Reproductive Health Professionals webinar series, “Migraines & the Female Patient,” offers information on the epidemiology of migraines and how to counsel affected women on their contraceptive options.
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Get the Latest Guidance on Zika Virus In the Family Planning Setting
Clinicians can get up to speed on the latest strategies for Zika virus prevention, as well as implement the latest guidance surrounding Zika in the family planning setting, with new webinars hosted by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the CDC.
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Updates Issued for US MEC, SPR — What Do the Changes Mean?
Time to update your practice. The U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2016 (US MEC 2016) and the U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2016 (US SPR 2016) have new information.1,2
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ED Push - September 2016 First Issue
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Oral Anticoagulation Reversal
This review discusses anticoagulant medications and reversal agents.
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Triage to a Certified Stroke Center Reduces Early Mortality
In an analysis of the effect of additional travel time, receiving treatment in a primary stroke center was associated with a survival benefit for stroke patients who traveled less than 90 minutes. Traveling more than 90 minutes to reach a primary stroke center offset any benefit.
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Community Education Improves Stroke Awareness and Appropriate Emergency Response
Community education programs are essential in efforts to improve overall success in treating acute ischemic stroke.
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Distinct EEG Features May Help Prognostication of Patients with Early PAMM
Early post-anoxic multifocal myoclonus (PAMM) traditionally has been considered a grave prognostic feature in patients who remain comatose after cardiac arrest. This study defines distinct electrographic phenotypes in the setting of PAMM with substantially different prognostic outcomes.
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Functional MRI in REM Behavior Disorder Is Suggestive of Future Parkinson’s Disease
Rapid eye movement behavior disorder carries an increased risk of future Parkinson’s disease and has fMRI and DaTSCAN features that are similar to those in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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Association of Traumatic Brain Injury with Late-life Neurodegenerative Diseases
This study analyzed pooled clinical and neuropathological data of older adults free of dementia from three prospective cohort studies and found that traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness was associated with risk for Lewy body accumulation, Parkinson’s disease, and progression of Parkinsonism, but not dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, neuritic plaques, or neurofibrillary tangles.