Education may improve hospital prescription rate of emergency contraception to teens
Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
Many doctors don't offer emergency contraception pills to adolescents who may benefit from them during emergency department visits because of misinformation about how the medicine works, according to a study by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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