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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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The need for new contraception options is clear. In the United States, about half of the some 3.4 million pregnancies each year are unintended.
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To evaluate possible drug-drug interactions with combined pills, clinicians need to understand how the estrogen and progestin in pills are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated.
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Publication of the newly updated Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on its way. The proposed new guidance, which replaces information published in 2010, will provide the latest evidence-based treatment recommendations.
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“Providing Quality Family Planning Services — Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs” is the newest member in the “suite” of family planning recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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In the wake of the 2014 midterm elections, Congress has shifted decidedly to the political right. When the 114th Congress convenes in January 2015, Republicans will have their largest majority in the House of Representatives since World War II and will control the Senate for the first time since 2007.
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Teens who received free contraception and were educated about the benefits and disadvantages of various birth control methods in the Contraceptive CHOICE Project in St. Louis were dramatically less likely to get pregnant, give birth, or obtain an abortion compared with other sexually active teens, data suggests in a just-released study.
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Near the end of September 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published its policy statement on contraception for adolescents.