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American women now have a choice when it comes to permanent birth control: They can opt to undergo tubal ligation or choose the Essure transcervical sterilization procedure.
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Your patient is a young mother in a mutually monogamous relationship who cannot tolerate oral contraceptives, has heavy menses, and says she doesnt want to use an injectable birth control method. She has no medical insurance coverage. What options can you offer her?
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Since about one-fourth of all U.S. women ages 15-44 who have ever married have undergone tubal sterilization,1 chances are that you have counseled women about their permanent contraceptive options.
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You reviewed the instructions for initiating the first pack of oral contraceptives (OCs) with your patient. She elects to use the Sunday start, beginning pills on the first Sunday after her next period. When she returns for a follow-up visit in a few months, though, you discover she never started the pills and now is pregnant.
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This article aims to provide the emergency medicine practitioner evidence-based information on the evaluation and management of wounds and to help dispel some of the commonly encountered myths in the practice of wound care.
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The bacterium Bacillus anthracis causes the death of macrophages, which may allow it to avoid detection by the innate immune system.
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Polio-Like Paralysis: What Next from West Nile Virus?; Cat Scratch Disease: Not Just for Kids
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The association between H pylori and acute cerebrovascular disease seems to be due to a higher prevalence of more virulent H pylori strains in patients with atherosclerotic stroke.
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Careful evaluation of epidemiologic data from recent African outbreaks of meningococcal disease suggests that significant risks now extend beyond the sub-Saharan belt through the Rift Valley and Great Lakes regions into Mozambique, then into Namibia and Angola.