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Recession impacts women's choices — How is your facility responding?

Check the records of women who are scheduled to return to your facility for a contraceptive refill or annual well woman exam. Are you seeing empty spots in the schedule?

Gardasil approved for use in males — Cervarix gets OK for use in females

Two new actions from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will impact your practice.

Options for treatment of heavy bleeding in focus

Clinicians now have an approved indication in hand for use of the levonorgestrel intrauterine system Mirena (LNG IUS, Mirena, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals; Wayne, NJ), to treat heavy menstrual bleeding in women who use intrauterine contraception as their method of pregnancy prevention.

Medical abortion: Safety, access probed

If medical abortion using mifepristone (Mifeprex, Danco Group) and misoprostol is offered at your facility, be sure to review a new study that asserts the safety of a particular mifepristone/misoprostol regimen.

Condom wrap-up — New options for women & men

Good news for patients at your clinic: The second-generation FC2 Female Condom is available for purchase in the United States, which gives American women a nonlatex, female-controlled option in disease protection.

Update care of pregnant women in light of H1N1

As the United States gears up to combat the H1N1 flu (also known as swine flu), be sure your practice includes the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for care of pregnant women.

STD Quarterly: HIV vaccine update: Progress made, but more work is left to do in research

Encouraging news comes from the HIV vaccine research front, where an investigational vaccine regimen tested in a Thailand clinical trial has been shown to be well tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection.

STD Quarterly: Research eyes ring for microbicide delivery

Women in the United States now account for more than one-quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses.

STD Quarterly: CT Updates

Update your clinical practice; make your plans now for the following 2010 conferences:

Contraceptive Technology Update – December 1, 2009

December 1, 2009