Articles Tagged With: Medication
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Report: Abortion Safe, but Access to the Procedure May Be Limited
A new report has determined that while abortion in the United States is safe, the quality of abortion care depends on where a woman lives.
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Meditation for Reducing CVD Risk
A recent American Heart Association statement found meditation to be an inexpensive intervention that may be adjunctively useful for reducing risk of heart disease.
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Mefloquine: Still Effective and Still Safe for Malaria Chemoprophylaxis
Mefloquine is known as an effective agent for malaria chemoprophylaxis. However, concerns about serious adverse effects have limited its use. Now, a careful review of data suggests that fatal outcomes related to mefloquine prophylaxis are very rare.
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A Novel Approach to Using Mind-Body Therapies for Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a multifactorial public health issue and the treatment plan needs to address all biopsychosocial aspects of this disease.
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HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for Adolescents: A Health Equity and Reproductive Justice Issue
Access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis is not just a public health issue, but equally important, an equity and justice issue.
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Can College Health Centers Improve Access to Abortion Care?
College health centers may be a student’s only access to healthcare, especially on campuses in rural areas.
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Pharmacologic Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Part 2
This two-part series of articles will address pharmacological agents, except insulin, used to manage type 2 diabetes mellitus. Part 1 covered sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors, incretin-based therapies, amylin analog, and dopamine receptor agonists. Part 2 will focus on biguanides, thiazolidinediones, sulfonylureas, meglitinides, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, and bile acid resins, as well as the authors’ treatment recommendations. Appendix A (http://bit.ly/2eyB4Px) is a comprehensive table of the effectiveness and costs of various combination therapies.
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Kaiser Accused of Shorting Meds to Save Money
An anesthesiologist is suing Kaiser Permanente for $9 million, claiming that he was fired for complaining when told to reduce patient medications so they could be discharged sooner.
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Wrong-patient Errors Can Lead to Death, But They Can Be Prevented
About 9% of the wrong-patient events studied for a just-released report led to temporary or permanent harm or, in some cases, death.
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Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Part 1
MONOGRAPH: Covering sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors, incretin-based therapies, amylin analog, and dopamine receptor agonists.