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While only one company has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for an HIV home collection-test system that requires users to collect a blood specimen, then mail it to a laboratory for professional testing, no test kit is available to allow consumers to interpret test results at home.
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Most adolescents who use contraception rely on combination oral contraceptive pills.
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Why is it so important that providers develop their skills when it comes to taking an adolescent sexual history?
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A California-based company is looking at new condom designs, including a male non-rolled silicone condom, a female silicone condom, and a silicone condom designed specifically for receptive anal intercourse.
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Received a promising program aimed at preventing transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)? Circle Oct. 14 as the deadline for abstract submission for the 2012 National STD Prevention Conference March 12-15 in Minneapolis.
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The authors advocate that cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging using specific criteria may be useful as a diagnostic tool for patients with stress cardiomyopathy at the time of acute clinical presentation.
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In the ICUs of a well-staffed academic medical center committed to quality improvement, in which closed staffing, multidisciplinary rounds, and the daily use of checklists were already in place, implementation of a 24-hour ICU telemedicine system that was well accepted by the medical staff was associated with impressive improvements in adherence to best practice standards as well as with reductions in hospital mortality and lengths of stay.
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Add Tdap to the growing list of recommended (and often required) vaccinations for health care workers (HCWs) in hospital, including MMR, hepatitis B, influenza, and possibly varicella. In April, the American College of Immunization Practices (ACIP) issued provisional recommendations for pertussis vaccination (Tdap) of all hospital HCWs, regardless of age and prior vaccine history (i.e., regardless of the time since last Td dose).
