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More than a quarter of U.S. women in a study by Medco took a medication to treat depression, anxiety or attention deficit disorder in 2010, an increase from a decade earlier and a higher rate than men.
The big pharmacy-benefits manager analyzed a sample of more than two million patients pharmacy records and found […]
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Martin Trussell is the author of the Health Plan Innovation blog.
A new Facebook application has been launched to help educate, motivate and mobilize people to prevent the spread of Humanpapilloma Virus (HPV). “Fact Check: HPV” (www.hpvfactcheck.org) allows users to take an interactive, educational quiz about HPV, find additional resources, and commit to take […]
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I’m a HR person, so you know that contraception is the last thing I want to talk about… Don’t get in an employee’s personal business, etc…
Ray Brusca, VP of Benefits at Black and Decker, would tell me (and you, if you’re like me) that contraception is something you need to talk more about, […]
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The idea of operating specialized “women’s health” programs, units, pavilions, or even separate hospitals (sometimes with “and children’s” added) has been around for decades. Since it has long been known that women make the vast majority of healthcare decisions in the family, and differ from men in terms of what they prefer […]
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