Articles Tagged With: Contraception
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Contraception for Patients with Disabilities
Contraception is an important part of healthcare for patients with disabilities, whether physical or intellectual. In 2018, investigators analyzed 2011-2015 survey data from the National Survey of Family Growth to estimate the use of contraception among women by disability status. These data show that individuals with disabilities may be treated differently than those without disabilities in terms of contraceptive care.
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Obesity and Time to Pregnancy Among Those Discontinuing Contraception
Among people discontinuing contraception to try to become pregnant, those who were obese had a longer time to pregnancy compared to those who were underweight or optimal weight.
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Abortion Resources for Patients with Financial and Other Barriers
The following is a list of some nonprofit funds and resources available to pregnant people who live in abortion-ban states and are seeking abortion care that they cannot afford.
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Planned Parenthood Prepares for Abortion Bans, Capacity Increases
Contraceptive Technology Update asked Danika Severino Wynn, CNM, vice president of abortion access at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, how the organization is handling the biggest threat to abortion rights in five decades.
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What Can OB/GYNs Do to Protect Patients — and Themselves?
Faced with new and unprecedented laws banning abortion, physicians need to learn all they can about their states’ laws. -
Reproductive Health Providers Prepare for Increased Capacity
Before voters in Ireland overturned a constitutional abortion ban, people had to travel to England and other places to obtain a safe and legal abortion. Soon, a large proportion of pregnant Americans will face the same choice. -
Case Study of a Pregnant Patient in Texas
A health system in Michigan treated a pregnant patient from Texas. She traveled to Michigan to end her pregnancy when doctors in Texas turned her away despite their acknowledgement that her fetus had a lethal fetal anomaly and would never live. -
With National Abortion Rights Gone, What Is Next for Providers?
Five Supreme Court justices signaled in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization oral arguments they were ready to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, despite nearly five decades of precedent upholding abortion care as a constitutional right. -
Research Suggests Need for Improved Abdominal Pain Screening
When adolescent females present at EDs with abdominal pain, they are inconsistently diagnosed through a gynecological history and pelvic exam. Sometimes, this can lead to the wrong treatment, which suggests a need for comprehensive sexual and gynecological health intake, according to researchers. -
CDC Updates Trichomoniasis Treatment Guidelines
Although trichomoniasis likely is the most common nonviral STI in the world, and is potentially dangerous for birth outcomes, it is largely overlooked in screening and diagnosis. The CDC recently updated its STI treatment guidelines, recommending women with trichomoniasis receive multidose metronidazole 500 mg twice daily for seven days.