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Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most common chronic metabolic disease that you may never have heard of. MASLD, formerly known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is the most prevalent liver disease worldwide. MASLD affects 30% of the world’s population, more than half of those people with obesity, and more than 70% of people with type 2 diabetes. While many clinicians may see patients with slightly elevated transaminases and assume it is fatty liver, MASLD is not benign and often begins well before laboratory changes. This article reviews the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and natural history of MASLD; known treatments; and future therapies.
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Structural Racism Affects Family Planning and Needs Combatting, Study Says
Family planning has been linked with racism for centuries, and this legacy impact on 21st-century patients needs to be addressed in family planning research, a new paper says.
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Strategies To Improve Contraceptive Counseling, Including for Prenatal Patients
Here are some strategies to improve contraceptive counseling for all patients, including those who are pregnant.
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Perinatal Contraceptive Counseling Helps Patients Manage Reproductive Futures
Reproductive healthcare and contraceptive counseling have evolved in recent years to embrace patient-centered counseling and the reproductive justice framework. This focus should include the perinatal period, but that is not always the case, a new paper finds.
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LARC Use Can Affect Well-Woman Visits and STI Screening
Adolescent and young adult patients who select long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) attend fewer well-woman visits and have reduced testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), new research shows.
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Digital Contraceptive Decision Aid Has Potential to Help Match Patients to Best Option
Providers and patients who would like a little help in contraceptive counseling and decision-making could use a new tool — a digital contraceptive decision aid — that could enhance women’s confidence and satisfaction with their contraceptive recommendation, new research shows.
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Revisions to CDC’s Two Contraceptive Guidelines Address Management of Side Effects
The latest updates to contraceptive guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) include recommendations for people with chronic kidney disease, human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV) infection risk, chronic diseases, and conditions such as obesity, surgery, breastfeeding, and postabortion.
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CDC Recommends New Pain Management Strategies for IUD Insertion
The 2024 U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use are the first to address the pain many women experience when they are having an intrauterine device (IUD) inserted.
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An Updated Review of Pediatric Facial Lacerations
Facial lacerations are common. Every acute care provider needs to be prepared to evaluate and manage facial and scalp lacerations and determine the best manner of repair and when referral is appropriate. The author provides an evidence-based, comprehensive and updated review of pediatric facial lacerations.
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Is It Past Time to Change Dietary Guidelines for Alcohol Use?
Analysis reveals that previous studies demonstrating the health benefits of moderate alcohol drinking were of low quality and that the relatively few published studies meeting the minimal quality criteria to avoid this problem do not show significantly lower mortality risk for moderate alcohol drinkers.