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American women are one step closer to having a contraceptive implant option with the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issuance of approvable status for Implanon, the single-rod contraceptive implant from Organon (West Orange, NJ).
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You suspect that your 17-year-old patient may have a chlamydia infection. Thanks to a nucleic acid amplification screen on a urine specimen, you are able to detect the sexually transmitted disease (STD) and report the results the next day.
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Research has been a cornerstone of contraceptive technology; the following noninclusive list includes 25 articles of note from the past 25 years. Several selections are offered by Deborah Kowal, MA, adjunct assistant professor in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, co-author of Contraceptive Technology, and the first editor for Contraceptive Technology Update.
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When the first combined oral contraceptive entered the marketplace in 1960, women began taking hormonally active pills for 21 days, followed by seven days of placebo pills, or no pills at all. This 21/7 regimen resulted in regular withdrawal bleeding every month. Such regular monthly cycles are a modern phenomenon.
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Look ahead five to 10 years, and you may see a male contraceptive on the market, as well as a microbicide for women that offers contraception as well as female-controlled protection against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), say reproductive health experts.
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Current use of gastric acid-suppressive therapy was associated with an increased risk of community-acquired pneumonia.
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The relative risk for each 1% increase in hemoglobin A1c was 1.3 for CHD, 1.2 for CVD, and 1.2 for all cause mortality.
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Adding early manual manipulation of the cervicothoracic spine for shoulder pain or dysfunction disorders, in addition to regular care of information, advice and medications, produced much better recovery at both 12- and 52-weeks post treatments.
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The FDA has approved a new formulation of hydromorphone for the management of pain.