More physicians will have the opportunity to complete their medical training in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in the future through a family medicine residency site.
This Viewpoint discusses the origins of the term provider as a reference to health care professionals, considers unintentional and potentially detrimental conse
A team of researchers, led by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, has discovered that improved guidance on COVID-19 management and healthcare navigation accessible to the deaf community is needed. The conclusion is based on studies that show a higher portion of deaf respondents reported challenges with accessing, understanding, and trusting COVID-19 information compared to their hearing peers.
Lifting FDA restrictions on mifepristone could normalize medication abortion
In a new study published online in spring 2021 and in the July issue of the journal
Contraception, University of Chicago Medicine investigators and colleagues interviewed primary care providers in Illinois about their interest in providing medication abortion care and found that lifting FDA restrictions on mifepristone to allow pharmacy dispensing could normalize medication abortion, facilitate its use in primary care facilities, and address disparities in reproductive health access. Mifepristone is used in combination with misoprostol to end early pregnancies, during the first trimester, said senior author Debra Stulberg, MD, MAPP, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the UChicago Medicine. The two-drug regimen is safe and highly effective, but access is limited by a strict Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) that prohibits pharmacy dispensing of mifepristone.
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