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[This is the second part of a two-part series on electronic media resources. Last month we discussed the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center's Youth Social Marketing Toolkit.]
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While you might provide correct information to your adolescent patients when it comes to teen sexual health topics, results of a recent study indicate many popular health web sites do not.
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Research recently conducted in the area around El Paso, TX, and Juarez, Mexico, suggests there is demand in the United States for over-the-counter birth control pills.
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While surgery is the most accepted method for treating ovarian endometriomas, recurrence often is recorded. Results from newly published research, which evaluates use of cyclic and continuous administration of oral contraceptives post surgical removal, indicate that Pill use can effectively reduce and delay endometrioma recurrence.
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Signs have been pointing toward a renaissance for intrauterine devices (IUDs). Since 2005, IUD use has gone up by 161%, according to SDI Health, a health care analytics firm in Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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A well-established body of epidemiologic literature supports a continuous graded risk between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and CV risk. This relationship has held constant whether one considers office BP, home BP, or ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM).
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The FDA has approved a miconazole buccal tablet for the treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis. This once-daily mucoadhesive buccal tablet provides slow release of the drug over the course of the day. The tablet is marketed by Strativa Pharmaceuticals as Oravig™.
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Contrary to the current guidelines, in the long term, an average of approximately 60 min/day of moderate-intensity activity for women is required to be successful in maintaining a normal weight.
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Being overweight or obese increases the risk of cirrhosis. In this study, excess body weight contributed to almost 20% of the cirrhosis-related hospital admissions and deaths, while alcohol contributed to almost 50%.