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Articles Tagged With: FDA

  • AI Creates Liability Risks for Healthcare Organizations

    Artificial intelligence is entering a variety of industries including healthcare, where it offers the opportunity to improve diagnoses and patient care in many ways. The potential benefits come with significant risks that must be anticipated and mitigated.

  • Improve Screening and Retesting for Trichomoniasis

    Infection by the protozoan Trichomonas vaginalis is the most common nonviral sexually transmitted infection, with an estimated 6.8 million cases in the United States annually. It can go undiagnosed because most infected people (up to three out of four) do not experience symptoms. Left undiagnosed and untreated, trichomoniasis can increase the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, and acquiring HIV and other STIs.

  • Society of Family Planning Issues Clinical Recommendation for Medication Abortion

    As maternity and OB/GYN deserts spread across the United States, medication abortion to expel the fetus and placenta from the uterus without a surgical procedure is possible and can work safely and well between 14 weeks and nearly 28 weeks of gestation. There are few absolute contraindications to medication abortion from 14 to 27 weeks of gestation, according to the Society of Family Planning and Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s new clinical recommendation.

  • Telemedicine Abortion Services Not as Accessible to Many in Need

    Medication abortion through telehealth services has grown dramatically in the past couple of years, but it is not accessible to everyone who may need the service. For example, younger people, those with health conditions, and those with limited English proficiency are less likely to use telemedicine abortion services.

  • Forensic Nurses Need Facts on Emergency Contraception

    Forensic nurses, who work with victims of violence, hold a fair amount of misinformation about how emergency contraception works, according to new research.

  • 3D Contraceptive Ring Technology Holds Promise for HIV Prevention

    The results of recent research suggest it is possible that women could have access to an intravaginal ring that can serve both as a contraceptive and as HIV prevention. The ring would be created through 3D printing technology. So far, it has been tested for safety in sheep, and it could be several years before clinical trials are underway.

  • Patients Desire Telemedicine for Abortion Care

    New research confirms previous studies in demonstrating the safety and efficacy of medication abortion pills. Studies also show there is strong desire for this option among people seeking an end to their pregnancy.

  • What Is Next for the First OTC Birth Control Pill Approved by the FDA?

    It took contraceptive care advocates more than two decades, but they achieved success on July 13, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Opill, the first over-the-counter hormonal birth control pill, for use in the United States.

  • National Patient Safety Board Could Be Implemented

    A bill in Congress could create a patient safety board modeled after the successful safety efforts in transportation. The bill would create a National Patient Safety Board that would do for the healthcare industry what the National Transportation Safety Board and Commercial Aviation Safety Team have done to improve safety for those fields for more than 25 years.

  • Reduce Risk of Long COVID Nightmare: Get Vaccinated

    Healthcare workers and millions of other Americans are suffering from the ghost of COVID-19, a seemingly endless or remittent continuation of a disturbing panoply of symptoms that could have been lifted from Dante’s Inferno: cognitive decline, chronic pain, shortness of breath, intense fatigue, and neurological attacks on the body’s organs. This is long COVID, about which there is little consensus on diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. However, evidence is accumulating suggesting vaccination can prevent or reduce the impact of long COVID.