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New England Governors Converge To Address Opioid Epidemic

The governors spoke to an international conference of physicians who prescribe or study opioids and urged them to reduce prescribing on their own.

Birth Control’s Next Frontier? Health Center Aims For Quick And Easy IUDs And Implants

If they’re so effective, why aren’t more women using IUDs and implants? A health clinic in Worcester is getting help to put better birth control front and center — particularly long-acting birth control, in hopes of cutting the high rate of unintended pregnancy.

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“This year is definitely causing symptoms — like other years in the past,” says Dr. Anna Kovalszki. “But every year I have patients who say, ‘this is the worst year ever.’ ”

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