Topic: Birth Control
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A cell phone text message -- and the buzz or beep that signals its arrival -- may not help a woman remember to pop her birth control pill, a new study suggests. The finding comes as a ...
Kenya announced on Tuesday its population stands at 38.6 million after a national census conducted last year, marking an increase of around 10 million since the last census in 1999. Planning Minister Wycliffe Oparanya said the increase of about one million people ...
A US regulatory agency on Friday approved an emergency contraceptive pill that can prevent pregnancy if taken up to five days after unprotected sex. The Food and Drug Administration said it granted approval for the drug, called ella, after two phase III ...
Rights group: Argentine health system fails to meet reproductive health needsArgentina's public health system is failing many of the women who depend on it for access to birth control and abortion, a human rights group said Tuesday. In a new report, Human ...
Ahmadinejad inaugurates plan to pay bonuses for newborns, repudiating family planningIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy on Tuesday to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran's decades of family planning as ungodly and a Western import. The new government initiative will pay ...
Fourth of July firecrackers echo the gunfire that helped the colonies win their independence more than 200 years ago.During last weekendÕs Independence Day celebration at the Clark County Shooting Park, you could have heard the real thing. And for active and retired ...
Federal health experts say a new type of morning-after pill that works longer than existing products is safe and effective. The Food and Drug Administration's panel of reproductive health experts voted unanimously that the pill ellaOne successfully reduces the chance of pregnancy ...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Ibrahim Issa, a jovial Syrian taxi-driver who wears a blue robe over an ample belly, has nine children from two wives. He plans to marry a third wife soon. He says it is up to Allah whether more children ...
CDC survey shows more teens using rhythm method for birth control, support single motherhoodA new national survey found that a growing number of teens say they use the rhythm method for birth control, and more teens also think it's OK for an ...
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries launches generic version of Bayer's contraceptive pill YazTeva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. said Tuesday it launched a generic version of Bayer's birth control pill Yaz, prompting a patent infringement lawsuit. In April, Teva received Food and Drug Administration approval for ...
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The Pill Turns 50
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ABORTION WORLDWIDE
Chart shows worldwide pregnancy rates, abortion rates, and contraception usage. With BC-US-Abortion ...AP News - -
Morning After Pill Goes On Sale In Spain
MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 27: A pharmacist shows a box containing a 'morning-after ...Getty Images -
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Over the Counter Birth Control
Condoms for men and women, the sponge, spermicides... the choices ...2008-01-17 -
Birth Control: NuvaRing Review
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Internal Birth Control (IUDs)
What's the most popular form of birth control in ...2008-02-07
