Pills Are Not Enough: The Case for Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives—and How North Carolinians Can Benefit

Guidelines for the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives.

Volume 85, Number 4 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 403 The use of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) has increased from 1.3 to 5.5 percent over the past decade. There are three LARCs available in the United States: the etonogestrel single-rod implant and two types of intrauterine devices (IUDs; copper T380A and levonorgestrel intrauterine system [Mirena]). Rates of uninte...

Mass Drug Administration for Trachoma: How Long Is Not Long Enough?

BACKGROUND Blinding trachoma is targeted for elimination by 2020 using the SAFE strategy (Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness, and Environmental improvements). Annual mass drug administration (MDA) with azithromycin is a cornerstone of this strategy. If baseline prevalence of clinical signs of trachomatous inflammation - follicular among 1-9 year-olds (TF1-9) is ≥ 10% but <30%, the World H...

How many doctors are enough?

How Many Earths Are Enough?

The goals of NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and ESA’s Darwin missions are to find and characterize terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of other stars, and to search for evidence of life in the atmospheres of any planets found. A key issue that must be addressed is the size of the sample of stars that must be searched before the scientific community, the funding agencies, and the ...

Increasing use of long-acting reversible contraception.

23 p23 UPDATE informs you of changes in clinical practice. This week: contraception p26 PrAcTicAl PrOcEDUrEs illustrates procedures. This week: removing an indwelling catheter p28 gUiDED lEArNiNg includes online cPD. This week: law on advance decisions p30 DEVElOPmENT shows how nurses are developing practice. This week: evaluating telemedicine p32 rEsEArcH presents research papers. This week: s...