Contraceptive Counseling: Providers Need More Training, Experts Say

A wider group of providers need to be trained on how to counsel patients regarding contraceptive care, Cynthia Harper, PhD, said Tuesday during a webinar on issues around contraceptive access sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine. “It is super important to be training a broader set of health providers in primary care — …

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I Tried Ear Seed Acupressure For Lower Back Pain

Ear seeding is the more than 2,000-year-old practice of sticking seeds from the Vaccaria plant onto specific points on the inside and outside of your ears. Today, most practitioners use tiny metal beads attached to adhesive stickers. The Chinese medicine treatment, formally known as auricular acupressure, is basically acupuncture without the needles: a plus, …

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Chat: Ask Tom Sietsema your dining out questions

Thanks for joining my every-Wednesday-at-11 a.m. dining discussion. I’m here to answer your restaurant-related questions and solve your dining dilemmas, like how to best switch tables in the middle of a meal or what to do if the server doesn’t pour all the contents of a bottle of wine. Got an etiquette question? Want …

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Video: Blueberry lavender lemonade – Mayo Clinic

Blueberry lavender lemonade Serves 16 Tip: Measure lavender carefully, and buy fresh lemon juice — not from concentrate — or squeeze about 10 large lemons. Boil 2 cups water. Add 16 ounces blueberries. Add 1/4 cup granulated sugar. Add 1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers. Boil for 5 minutes. Strain over pitcher of ice. Add …

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St Vincent’s Health signs in MEDITECH for private hospitals EMR

St Vincent’s Health is set to adopt a single cloud-hosted EMR system for its private hospitals in Australia.  It recently announced in a media release that it awarded a contract to US-based MEDITECH to implement the Expanse EMR across its 10 private hospitals in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. It will be deployed …

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Coronavirus is back, but how worried should you be?

Dr. Bob Wachter was an expert who diligently practiced what he preached. For three years, the prominent University of California at San Francisco physician advocated masking and vaccination for those who, like him, wanted to avoid the coronavirus, as well as the mysterious, long-lasting symptoms known as long COVID. When Wachter’s wife contracted the …

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‘Useless’ appendage of the ovaries may play key role in fertility

A structure called the rete ovarii is situated next to the ovaries and is extremely difficult to see with the naked eye KATERYNA KON/SPL/GETTY A key component of the female reproductive system may have been overlooked. Research into the rete ovarii, an appendage of the ovaries that has previously been dismissed as useless, suggests …

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