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The next chart in your inbox is for a healthy 21-year-old nonsmoking woman. She indicates she is interested in using an oral contraceptive (OC) for birth control. What pill do you prescribe?
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Young women with herpes infections often are treated with the oral antivirals acyclovir, valacyclovir, or famciclovir.
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For the past decade, subscribers to Contraceptive Technology Update have been asked questions about their prescribing practices. The question "In the past year, how many IUDs have you personally inserted?"
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More women may be moving toward use of the contraceptive vaginal ring, implant, and intrauterine device (IUD), but combined oral contraceptives (OCs) continue to lead as a top birth control choice.
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When it comes to providing oral contraceptives (OCs) to patients for the first time, 87% of respondents to the 2010 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey say they choose Quick Start, the immediate initiation of the hormonal method in the office.
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An important change might be on the horizon for adolescents seeking emergency contraception (EC).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just released Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2009.
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To assess the effect of screening mammography on breast cancer mortality, the authors used data from the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program to observe chronologic trends associated with screening as well as advances in breast cancer awareness and treatment.
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Previous investigation of cervical cancer biology has revealed a dependence on VEGF, among other factors, for growth and metastases.
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Lewis and colleagues performed an investigator-blinded study of sperm penetrability and quality of mid-cycle cervical mucus between levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (LNG-IUD) users (n = 14) and hormone-free controls (n = 16).
