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Contraceptive Technology Update May 2009 Issue in PDF
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Advocates move to rescind 'conscience' rule
Reproductive health advocates are throwing their support behind the Obama administration's move to rescind a controversial "conscience" rule that would expand the right of health care personnel and institutions to refuse to provide or assist in the provision of services on moral or religious grounds. -
Contraception safe for HIV-positive women
Today, women account for more than one-quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
Check progress of emergency contraception
Access barriers to the dedicated emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) Plan B are set to be lifted. A federal judge has instructed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make Plan B available to 17-year-olds and ordered the agency to review whether to make the ECP available to females 17 and under without prescription. -
Gene-based Medicine - Prime Time Yet?
Utilizing genotyping for warfarin therapy in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation may not be cost-effective. -
Sleep to Your Heart's Content
A prospective study of men and women showed that duration of sleep is correlated with coronary artery calcification with 1 hour more of sleep daily reducing the odds of calcification over 5 years by 33%. -
Internal Medicine Alert: Full March 29, 2009 Issue in PDF
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Febuxostat Tablets (Uloric®)
The first new urate-lowering drug has been approved in more than 40 years. -
Full March 15, 2009 Issue in PDF
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Priming the Pump of a Leaky Gut
This is the first study documenting that a PPI compromises the mucosal barrier function of the upper GI tract.