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Women in Texas face hurdles when it comes to getting long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods following cuts to the state family planning budget by the 2011 Texas State Legislature.
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Research findings indicate that brief telephone counseling sustained long-term impact from a sexually transmitted infections/HIV intervention program among African American female adolescents.
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The North American Menopause Society and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health have developed and endorsed the term “genitourinary syndrome of menopause” (GSM) to define “a collection of symptoms and signs associated with a decrease in estrogen and other sex steroids involving changes to the labia majora/minora, clitoris, vestibule/introitus, vagina, urethra and bladder.”
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Research findings from the Contraceptive CHOICE Project, a St. Louis prospective cohort study, examined the short-term bleeding and cramping patterns of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and the impact on method satisfaction.
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Women in the West African nation of Burkina Faso now have access to a lower-dose formulation of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) packaged in a novel injection system that is designed to increase access to contraception at all levels of the health system.
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Patients will soon be able to check the influenza vaccination rates of health care workers at the nation’s hospitals through Hospitalcompare.gov, the website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Expecting the unexpected: ‘The best managers are people who don’t lose that human touch.’ Whether it’s a rare flu epidemic like H1N1, a natural disaster or a major hospital technology overhaul, hospital employee health departments can just about predict the arrival of something unpredictable every year or two.
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Hospitals with solid organizational practices and policies, including better ergonomic practices, have lower injury rates among nurses, a new study finds.
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For the first time, conjugated monoclonal antibodies have been added to a list of drugs that pose an occupational hazard. The new cancer treatment targets tumors with deadly toxins – but also can produce some residue that could put health care workers at risk, safety experts caution.
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With 5.7 million workers employed in hospitals, population workforce aging trends are hitting the industry hard. The nursing and nursing aides’ shortages are combining with the demographic trend of older female employees — an average of 47 years for RNs — suggest that nurses and other health care workers will need to continue working into advanced age in the next decade.