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People with Disabilities Often Left Out of Contraceptive Conversation
Several recent studies revealed that women with disabilities often receive inadequate or no reproductive and sexual health counseling and care, partly because healthcare professionals do not ask. -
Study: IUDs Are as Effective as Tubal Ligation — and Safer
Researchers made an astonishing discovery when comparing the safety and effectiveness of IUDs and tubal ligation: The rates of pregnancy were similar, and IUDs were much safer. Instead of finding pregnancy rates on the order of one in every 1,000 or 10,000 tubal ligation procedures, they found a rate of 2.64 per 100 procedures. For placement of levonorgestrel IUDs the rate was lower — 2.4 per 100 procedures. -
How Many Leads Are Abnormal?
The figure was obtained after cardiac catheterization for new chest pain. The rhythm is sinus bradycardia at ~50 beats/minute. All intervals are normal. The axis is leftward, but not enough to qualify as a hemiblock. There is no chamber enlargement.
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Abrocitinib Tablets/Upadacitinib Extended-Release Tablets (Cibinqo/Rinvoq)
Abrocitinib and upadacitinib can be prescribed to treat adults with refractory, moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis that is not adequately controlled with other systemic drug products, including biologics, or when using those therapies is inadvisable.
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Booster Doses Effective Against Omicron
While vaccination provides protection against infection with omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, high level protection from a need for hospitalization requires a booster dose.
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Patients’ Goals During Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Stays
After a long-term acute care hospital stay, most patients will achieve goals of ventilator liberation, eating, drinking, and speaking, but many will not achieve independence in walking, grooming, toileting, or returning home.
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Coffee and Tea: Drink Choice and Effects on Stroke, Dementia, and Poststroke Dementia
Moderate amounts of coffee and/or tea consumption were associated with the lowest hazard ratio of stroke and dementia, while coffee alone or in combination with tea was associated with a lower risk of poststroke dementia.
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Association Between Breastfeeding and Blood Pressure at 3 Years of Age
Any breastfeeding, including within the first days of life, was associated with significantly lower systolic blood pressure at age 3 years in participants from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development Cohort Study.
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Coffee and Tea: Drink Choice and Effects on Stroke, Dementia, and Poststroke Dementia
A long-term, large-scale prospective study revealed moderate amounts of coffee and/or tea consumption was associated with the lowest hazard ratio of stroke and dementia, while coffee alone or in combination with tea was associated with a lower risk of poststroke dementia.
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CGRP Antagonists: What Is Their Role in Headache Therapy?
Migraine is a highly prevalent and debilitating condition that causes significant impairment in quality of life. Preventive therapy for migraine is indicated when migraine attacks interfere with quality of life or are frequent and debilitating. The ability to prevent migraine with pharmacologic therapy has long been a goal of both patients and their physicians. The ideal preventive (prophylactic) migraine treatment should be effective, safe, and well tolerated, with few or no contraindications, few or no drug interactions, safety in pregnancy and breastfeeding, and dosed in a manner to ease adherence.