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Extend Life Expectancy by Achieving Type 2 Diabetes Therapeutic Goals
Investigators analyzed gains in life expectancy by achieving treatment goals, finding significant gains from lower body mass index, glycated hemoglobin, systolic blood pressure, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
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Updated Aspirin Guidance from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
The authors of new recommendations advise avoiding initiating aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults age 60 years or older, individualizing decisions based on characteristics and preferences for patients.
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May Is National Nurses Month
Leverage the many resources available to meet all your nursing needs.
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Research Suggests Need for Improved Abdominal Pain Screening
When adolescent females present at EDs with abdominal pain, they are inconsistently diagnosed through a gynecological history and pelvic exam. Sometimes, this can lead to the wrong treatment, which suggests a need for comprehensive sexual and gynecological health intake, according to researchers. -
CDC Updates Trichomoniasis Treatment Guidelines
Although trichomoniasis likely is the most common nonviral STI in the world, and is potentially dangerous for birth outcomes, it is largely overlooked in screening and diagnosis. The CDC recently updated its STI treatment guidelines, recommending women with trichomoniasis receive multidose metronidazole 500 mg twice daily for seven days. -
Title X Funding Cuts Could Worsen STI Rates
In March, the federal government sent Title X health providers a budget that will result in further slashes to programs that screen, test, trace, and treat people with STIs. STI rates are rising sharply for the sixth year in a row. -
Study Shows Low-Sensitivity Pregnancy Tests Work Well After Medication Abortion
Contraceptive Technology Update asked Patricia A. Lohr, MD, MPH, medical director and director of the Centre for Reproductive Research & Communication at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in the United Kingdom to explain how her new study’s findings suggest the usefulness of the low-sensitivity urine pregnancy test for use after a self-managed medication abortion. -
Intervention Focuses on Contraceptives and Reproductive Life Plan for Teens
Teen mothers need tangible support to help them with their contraceptive decisions and to prevent unintended rapid-repeat births, according to recent research. The AIM 4 Teen Moms program is a future-oriented behavioral intervention that can help influence teen mothers’ attitudes, intentions, and contraceptive use and behaviors. -
Now Is the Time to Change Label on Emergency Contraceptives
The FDA should change the labeling for levonorgestrel-based emergency contraception to reflect evidence-based knowledge that the drug does not act as an abortifacient, according to researchers. The label change is especially important now, as states are banning abortions and sometimes defining it in ways that would prohibit pharmacies from selling emergency contraception under its current FDA labeling. -
Research Shows Benefits of Policies Increasing Access to Postpartum LARC
Medicaid expansion and other policies can make postpartum LARC more affordable. States also can create ways to make LARC affordable through programs in which hospitals can bill separately for intrauterine devices and their insertion.