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New developments are arising on the vasectomy front, with researchers taking a look at the effectiveness of different methods of vas deferens occlusion and identifying chemical candidates to help speed up time to vasectomy success.
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When you review birth control options with your female patients, you tick off several items: a shot, a patch, an intravaginal ring, intra-uterine devices, barrier methods, and several types of pills.
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From adolescence on, most men need information and counseling about sexual and reproductive matters, and they need somewhere reliable to go for related education and health care.
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Review the number of services offered at your family planning agency, then check off the number that address the reproductive health needs of men. If your agency is like most of the facilities participating in a recently published survey, you may be serving some male patients, but doing very little to recruit more.
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Will adding male programs to existing family planning services subtract from existing care?
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EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Psychiatric Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect the delivery of care.
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Knowing when if ever is the right time to discontinue antidepression medication is a subject of debate. This article will review the published data on maintenance treatment of depression and the long-term use of antidepressants. Specifically, it will address what currently is known regarding who is an appropriate candidate for long-term therapy; the long-term safety and efficacy data on antidepressants; whether antidepressants may be depressogenic or neuroprotective; and how and when to safely and effectively discontinue the medication.
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