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Much of the hotly debated health care reform legislation won't actually be implemented for months or years, but an expanded drug rebate program is an important exception. States can collect additional rebates right away, which may help some with severe budget shortfalls.
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An approach designed to reduce HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in adolescents previously used exclusively by academic researchers now has been shown to be successfully implemented by community-based organizations (CBOs).
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An analysis presented at the 2010 National STD Prevention Conference gives a chilling look at impact of HIV and syphilis among U.S. gay and bisexual men.
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Several descriptive phrases are now being coined when family planning providers discuss such highly effective reversible methods as intrauterine contraception (ParaGard Copper T 380A intrauterine device, Duramed Pharmaceuticals, and the Mirena levonorgestrel intrauterine system, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals) and the contraceptive implant (Implanon, Schering-Plough Corp.).
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With drug manufacturers retreating in recent years from voluntary discounts to family planning and other public clinics, providers increasingly rely on federally mandated discounts.
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[This is the second part of a two-part series on electronic media resources. Last month we discussed the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center's Youth Social Marketing Toolkit.]
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While you might provide correct information to your adolescent patients when it comes to teen sexual health topics, results of a recent study indicate many popular health web sites do not.
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Research recently conducted in the area around El Paso, TX, and Juarez, Mexico, suggests there is demand in the United States for over-the-counter birth control pills.