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April 13, 2009
Family Planning Services Exemplify Prevention-Based Health Reform Principles, Guttmacher Policy Review Says
Public Release Date: 26-March-2009
Summary of "Family Planning and Health Care Reform: The Benefits and Challenges of Prioritizing Prevention," Gold, Guttmacher Policy Review, Winter 2009.
President Obama's administration and Congress have indicated an interest in pursuing health care reform that prioritizes prevention, and "family planning exemplifies both the benefits of prevention and the issues inherent in trying to remake the current health financing system to work for prevention," Rachel Benson Gold of the Guttmacher Institute writes in a Guttmacher Policy Review article.
March 26, 2008
Study Examines Diaphragm Use, Acceptability for STI Prevention
Public Release Date: 20-March-2008
Abstract of "Evidence-Based Planning of a Randomized Controlled Trial on Diaphragm Use for Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections," Behets et al. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, March 2008.
Frieda Behets of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and colleagues examined whether commercial sex workers in Madagascar would accept and use a diaphragm to prevent sexually transmitted infections in an effort to determine potential obstacles in future research on the effectiveness of a diaphragm for use in STI prevention.
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December 04, 2007
Rapid Chlamydia Test Shows Promise for 'Test and Treat' Strategy
Public Release Date: 30-November-2007
CAMBRIDGE, England -- A rapid point-of-care test for Chlamydia has demonstrated good accuracy compared with conventional tests, investigators here found.
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November 26, 2007
Internet Remedies for STIs Pose Significant Public Health Hazard
Public Release Date: 19-November-2007
People with sexually transmitted infections are putting themselves at risk by buying treatments over the internet, according to new research by the University of East Anglia.
Less than a quarter of internet vendors gave information on potential side effects of their treatments. They also failed to say if their products would interfere with any prescription medicines that patients might be on, or if there might be harm to patients who were breastfeeding or pregnant. Equally, less than a quarter of vendors provided advice on how to avoid transmission and becoming re-infected.
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November 06, 2007
Guttmacher Institute, Kaiser Family Foundation Release Report on Medicaid Coverage for Family Planning Services
Public Release Date: 31-October-2007
"Medicaid's Role in Family Planning," Guttmacher Institute, Kaiser Family Foundation: The issue brief examines coverage provided by Medicaid for women of reproductive age at the national and state levels; the range of services covered as part of family planning; state-initiated family planning expansions and their impact in reducing abortions, and unintended pregnancies and births; and recent changes in Medicaid policy, including the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.
August 27, 2007
Literacy Linked to Survival in Medicare Patients
Public Release Date: 24-July-2007
CHICAGO -- Medicare patients who couldn't read a physician's instructions, or who didn't understand what they read had a higher mortality rate than patients with adequate reading skills.
After adjusting for demographics, socioeconomic status, disability, and chronic conditions, patients with inadequate health literacy were 52% more likely to die during an average of 67.8 months of follow-up (P<0.001), according to a study reported in the July 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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June 05, 2007
New Educational Tool for Women who are Thinking about Breastfeeding
Public Release Date: 16-May-2007
A new website featuring personal experiences of breastfeeding has gone 'live' in time for National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (May 13 - 19).
Dr Kath Ryan, Senior Research Fellow at Bournemouth University recorded the interviews with 49 women and two men from all parts of the UK for the new site - www.dipex.org/breastfeeding. The men featured are partners of women who were interviewed.
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May 11, 2007
AHA Forum: Healthy Workplace, Healthy Workers
Public Release Date: 10-May-2007
WASHINGTON, May 10 -- An employee health program incorporating a fitness center, health education, and incentives improved workers' cardiovascular health and workplace safety, investigators reported here.
Employees who availed themselves of those services improved blood pressure control by 9% and diabetes control by 15%, found Sharon A. Clark, D.H.Sc., of JEA, the municipal utility company in Jacksonville, Fla., and colleagues.
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May 10, 2007
ACOG: Plan B Availability Varies from State to State
Public Release Date: 9-May-2007
SAN DIEGO -- Those who battled the FDA for non-prescription status of Plan B (levonorgestrel) apparently won only half the struggle. Prescription or not, Plan B can be hard to get.
A survey of Plan B availability in three major cities found that state laws can override the ease of access to the emergency contraception agent, whether by prescription or "under-the-counter" sales.
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April 16, 2007
Health Disparities in Access to Healthcare
Public Release Date: 16-April-2007
Minority individuals are much more likely to develop and die from cancer than the general U.S. population.
Previous research points to lack of health insurance, poverty, language and cultural barriers, and inadequate access to early detection services and good medical care as causes. Research reported today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) suggests that genetics, in addition to socioeconomic status, are important factors accounting for the disparity of cancer incidence and mortality between African-Americans, Hispanics and Caucasians.
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