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Research consistently has shown that HIV-positive patients perform cognitively at lower levels than their uninfected peers, an expert says.
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Contrary to stereotypes, HIV in America is showing more than a touch of gray.
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Educate adolescents and young women about human papillomavirus (HPV) with new materials provided by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) "Be Confident!" campaign.
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With partisan fighting increasingly the norm in Washington, one of the few potential points of agreement might be federal funding for so-called home visiting programs.
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Shannon is a 15-year-old patient who is sexually active. She has previously used oral contraceptives, but Shannon experienced an unplanned pregnancy when she missed several days of pills in her pill pack and failed to come in for emergency contraception. What birth control methods can you offer?
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Flip through your patient files from the last week. If you see heavy menstrual bleeding checked several times in your charts, there's a good reason: One-third of all women report such bleeding at some point during their lives.
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Large compensation to subjects for their participation in a study is considered a red flag by many IRBs, who worry that it could provide undue inducement to join a study without considering its risks.
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While passive consent may not be the preferred way of obtaining parental permission to survey underage students, researchers say there will continue to be some situations in which it's the best and perhaps only practical choice.
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When researchers want to survey underage students in school settings, it's obviously necessary to get permission from the children's parents. But exactly how that permission is best obtained has been a matter of debate.