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How can your program reach out to sexually assaulted or exploited girls with a history of running away?
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One popular form of birth control for young women is use of the contraceptive injection (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, DMPA, Depo-Provera, Pfizer, New York City; Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Injectable Suspension, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, North Wales, PA).
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Results from a new national review indicates that while the vast majority of pediatricians and family physicians are offering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, fewer physicians are encouraging it for 11- to 12-year-old girls.
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When complaints of dizziness in elderly patients were evaluated in primary care offices, the most common cause was cardiovascular disease, combined with contributions from adverse drug reactions. This contradicts many previous studies done in tertiary care settings where vertigo or vestibular disease was found to be the most common cause.
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Clinicians are increasingly presented with the tasks of addressing not only a burgeoning population of type 2 diabetics, but an equally voluminous group of prediabetics.
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Lorcaserin submitted for FDA review, FDA advisory panel votes against phentermine/topiramate, mixed vote on rosiglitazone, advisory panel votes to remove breast cancer indication from bevacizumab labeling, no increase in seizures found with DTaP vaccine, new REMS for quinine.