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How can your program reach out to sexually assaulted or exploited girls with a history of running away?
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One popular form of birth control for young women is use of the contraceptive injection (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, DMPA, Depo-Provera, Pfizer, New York City; Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Injectable Suspension, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, North Wales, PA).
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Results from a new national review indicates that while the vast majority of pediatricians and family physicians are offering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, fewer physicians are encouraging it for 11- to 12-year-old girls.
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When complaints of dizziness in elderly patients were evaluated in primary care offices, the most common cause was cardiovascular disease, combined with contributions from adverse drug reactions. This contradicts many previous studies done in tertiary care settings where vertigo or vestibular disease was found to be the most common cause.
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Clinicians are increasingly presented with the tasks of addressing not only a burgeoning population of type 2 diabetics, but an equally voluminous group of prediabetics.
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While some "front runner" Medicaid programs have made expansion of preventive care a priority to improve quality of care and reduce costs, most have only started to look at these possibilities. "Utilization rates remain low for preventive services that are very cost-effective and have been recommended for years," says Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director of the American Public Health Association.
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There is a lot of current interest in the "rebalancing" of state long-term care systems between nursing facilities and home and community-based care. However, to know how far you've come, you've got to know where you started out.
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