Brigham and Women's Bridge Clinic is a rapid-access, low barrier clinic for patients with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), including alcohol, opioids, benzodiazepines, cocaine, amphetamines, etc. We embrace a harm reduction and compassionate approach for patients in all stages of recovery.
Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm / Walk-In Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 4:30pmPhone: (617) 278-0172Fax: (617) 278-0191Email: bwhbridgeclinic@partners.org
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Sleeping naked (or even in loose-fitting cotton bottoms) allows for some air circulation around your vagina. Keeping the area cooler and drier may help reduce your chances of getting a yeast infection, too.
We provide highly regarded surgical, oncological, clinical and acute care to women and children. Our team of physician specialists, nurses and technicians care for the medical needs of women and children with a family-centered approach.
At the only clinic in the area with board-certified infectious disease pediatricians, we see children with unusual infections and contagious diseases such as measles, HIV, meningitis and rare parasite infections.
If you are covered by Medicaid and are currently pregnant, we encourage you to enroll in The MOM Care Program. MOM Care is a network of physicians, clinics, and hospitals in Mobile County dedicated to ensuring that all expectant mothers and their babies have access to quality care. The goal of MOM Care is delivering healthy babies for all patients.
Many toddlers express their natural sexual curiosity through self-stimulation. Boys may pull at their penises, and girls may rub their genitals. Teach your children that masturbation is a normal but private activity.
By age 3 or 4, children often realize that boys and girls have different genitals. As your son has noticed, his sister is different. It is valuable to offer a simple explanation, such as, "Boys' bodies and girls' bodies are made differently."
The onset of breast development in girls less than 8 years of age may be the first sign of precocious puberty or more likely a condition referred to as benign premature thelarche. Benign thelarche is most commonly seen in girls who are under 2 or older than 6 years of age. In those girls under 2 years, breast tissue is thought to be a consequence of infant gonadotropin secretion and ovarian hormone production.
History and physical findings that support benign development include presence of breast tissue since birth, waxing and waning size of breast development, absence of other pubertal signs and no evidence of linear growth acceleration. Additionally, benign thelarche in girls under two years rarely exceeds Tanner stage II development.
In girls who are 6 years of older, benign thelarche or otherwise known as nonprogressive precocious puberty may be a consequence of temporarily increased ovarian steroid secretion and/or highly sensitive estrogen receptors. When breast development occurs without other signs of puberty in girls older than 6 years, limited work-up is indicated but monitoring of development and growth over subsequent months is necessary. Intervention is considered only if development progresses rapidly and there are psychosocial and final height concerns.
Rarely a prepubertal aged girl will present with rapid breast development over 1-2 months followed by vaginal bleeding. This history suggests the presence of an ovarian follicular cyst and a pelvic ultrasound performed as close to the episode of bleeding should be obtained.
Benign thelarche does not occur as often in girls between ages 2 and 6 years, so onset of breast development in girls within this age range should be referred to a pediatric endocrinologist for evaluation.
It is important for the doctor or nurse to make sure that a person feels comfortable during a physical exam. The American Medical Association require clinics to provide a chaperone on request and to allow people to bring a friend or relative into the examination room with them.
Tampons are small, pocket-sized and discreet for girls to carry before or during their periods. By controlling the blood before it leaves the vagina, tampons are often more comfortable than wearing pads on their underwear.
Your health care provider should perform a clinical breast exam at your annual physical, and you can practice breast self-awareness by knowing what is normal for your breast and being able to identify small changes immediately. You should perform breast self-exams at least once a month at the same time frame in your menstrual cycle.
The results of the clinical trial, conducted in San Francisco and Seattle, have been eagerly anticipated by public health officials and clinicians who are looking for new ways to prevent STIs, which have been on the rise in the United States and many other parts of the world for the past six years.
They recruited from public health clinics in San Francisco and Seattle. To qualify, participants had to have had gonorrhea, chlamydia or syphilis, in the previous year. Participants were randomized to receive doxycycline or no doxycycline in an open-label study design.
The trial was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, through grant R01AI143439, and conducted at the HIV clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco City Clinic, both part of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and the Madison Clinic and the Sexual Health Clinic at Harborview Medical Center, both at the UW Medicine. 2ff7e9595c
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