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CBTI Strategy Reduces Sleeping Pill Use in Canadian Seniors
“Providers said that deprescribing is difficult, time-consuming, and often not a productive use of their time.”
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Could British Columbia Eliminate Cervical Cancer by 2031?
Investigators conduct a modeling study to determine when and how BC might achieve the elimination of cervical cancer.
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Will Your Next Prescription Be 20 Minutes of Nature a Day?
Time outdoors has a positive impact on mental health, perception, and well-being and may be gaining ground as a treatment.
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Taking a new obesity drug and birth control pills? Be careful
“It [the warning] was in the product insert, but clinically speaking, I don’t know if it was at the top of providers’ minds when they were...
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New guidelines for cannabis in chronic pain management released
New clinical practice guidelines for cannabis in chronic pain management may help clinicians offer an effective and less addictive alternative to...
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HIV testing still suboptimal
“If we just look at the need for HIV testing based on who is at risk, I think that we are always going to fall short.”
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Measles exposures in Kentucky have CDC on alert
“It’s really about considering measles in any un- or undervaccinated patient that arrives at a clinic and recently traveled internationally.”
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Parents driving the ‘talk’ supports healthy sexual behaviors in GBQ teens and young adults
“Providers can encourage parents to ask if a child is dating or is familiar with ways to protect themselves or provide consent, and act as a...
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HIV: Greater parental involvement needed with young men who have sex with men
“The goal was to get parents to deliver more messages and engage in more behaviors with their sons that we think are likely to help their sons...
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Droplet dispersal in sterile processing units far exceeds guideline limit
“The guidelines say that droplets stop at 3 or 4 feet, and they don’t.”
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Integrase inhibitors and gestational weight gain: Should women worry?
“This weight gain is primarily happening with women who are starting integrase strand transferase inhibitors.”
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Texas district court allows employers to deny HIV PrEP coverage
"Judge O'Connor has a long history of issuing rulings against the Affordable Care Act and LGBT individuals, and we expect the case to be...
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Are we up the creek without a paddle? What COVID, monkeypox, and nature are trying to tell us
We may be facing unique challenges and smaller windows to intervene as we move forward.