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With the wide array of birth control options available today, are adolescents still relying on coitus interruptus? Results of a 2009 study indicate that clinicians should not consider use of contraceptive withdrawal infrequent among teens.
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Findings from new research may aid clinicians in identifying women who are likely to gain weight while using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA, Depo Provera). Research indicates that DMPA users whose weight increased by 5% within the first six months of use are at risk of continued, excessive weight gain.
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Women who want a permanent form of birth control now have a new option. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Adiana permanent contraception system, manufactured by Hologic of Bedford, MA.
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If your facility provides comprehensive sexually transmitted disease care for men who have sex with men (MSM), be sure to incorporate new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding gonorrhea and chlamydia testing.
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The HIV community has been asking since 1982: "How might we go about encouraging condom use in discordant couples?" On the whole, our efforts have been a disappointing failure.
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A healthy, nonsmoking woman, age 36, waits in your examination room. While she has been married for seven years, she and her husband are not yet ready to begin their family. What contraceptive choices are available to her?
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Two new programs have been announced by Merck & Co. to help confirm patients' insurance coverage and address providers' reimbursement concerns regarding Gardasil, the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
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It is now widely accepted that cancer of the cervix is caused by infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV). The infectious etiology of cervical cancer was first suggested when the second wives of some HPV-infected men whose first wives died of cervical cancer also developed the disease.
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What is your facility doing to stop the spread of chlamydia? Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States.
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Results of a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show about 13% of high school students have been tested for HIV, despite the fact that this age group harbors a disproportionate number of undiagnosed cases.