Find a doctor you like and listen to her or his recommendations, because it’s hard for the average consumer to know which birth control pill to take. History helps, but there’s no magic bullet to prescribing the “best” pill.
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“You can try to tailor it,” says Karen Foster, nurse practitioner with Planned Parenthood […]
A baby born to a 20-year-old student in an Otago university hostel toilet was alive at birth but died very soon after, a pathologist told a depositions hearing in Dunedin District Court yesterday.
The accused woman, whose name remains suppressed, is accused of causing the newborn baby’s death on May 20 by failing in her legal […]
Migraine, mood swings, irritability, bloating — these are just some of the debilitating pre-menstrual symptoms many women experience every month.
But now a ‘continuous’ contraceptive pill could allieviate some of the problems associated with their monthly hormonal changes.
The new pill, Lybrel (levonorgestrel / ethinyl estradiol), is designed to be taken every day and has been shown […]
If a new brand of birth control gets approved early next year, that time of the month could become the time of, like, the decade. Lybrel, a birth-control pill made by Wyeth, would be the first oral contraceptive to deliver an uninterrupted supply of hormones. Seventy percent of women who took it for six months […]
China is to bring in new financial incentives to encourage people in rural areas to have fewer children in another bid to control its rising population.
From next year, parents in the countryside will get an annual payment when they reach the age of 60, provided they have only one child, or two girls.
A lack of […]
A trial of a new male contraceptive is being expanded after American men rushed to sign up.
The Intra Vas Device (IVD), which is designed to be an alternative to a vasectomy, consists of tiny silicone plugs inserted into the tubes through which sperm travel.
It was effective in all cases in a pilot study of 30 […]