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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating the spread of a respiratory illness called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
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Its challenging enough for any employee to practice proper nutritional habits. But when they work the night shift, and breakfast time comes at 9 p.m., things can really get tough.
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As with many areas of occupational health care, new approaches in technology have been sought to ease the way into compliance with the new Privacy Standard of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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One of the nagging issues surrounding the newly identified disease severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is that so many questions remain unanswered. Health care workers clearly are at risk, as has been demonstrated in several countries, but what about workers in general?
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When it comes to emergency contraception (EC), does its availability and use impact ongoing contraceptive methods? Initial research from one study indicates that adolescent mothers who are given a supply of EC are no less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control than teen mothers who are not given EC.
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Your next patient is a young married woman who is unable to use hormonal birth control and is not interested in using an intrauterine device. Because she wants to have more children, sterilization is not an option at the present time. What contraceptive methods are available to her?
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It is estimated some 50 million women in the United States are screened on an annual basis with Pap tests. Clinicians now have another tool in their arsenal that will help distinguish women at increased risk of developing cervical cancer from those at very low risk.
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