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Health Maintenance in Postmenopausal Women

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Women will spend approximately one-third of their lives postmenopausal; therefore, physicians should be familiar with primary preventive care recommendations in this patient population.

Although most routine childhood immunizations have remained the same for the past 10 years, recommendations for COVID-19, pneumococcal, and respiratory syncytial virus vaccines have been updated.

Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic neuropathic pain condition that causes sudden, brief episodes of electric shock–like, lancinating pain in one or more trigeminal nerve distributions.

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