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The Pill – 60th Anniversary As I write this, it is one day after the 60th anniversary of the first…
A Guide to Contraception and Side Effects
Scheel, 37, started on a birth control pill called Ortho Tri-Cyclen at age 15 in hopes of lessening her severe…
The “morning-after pill” is available to a second generation at Jennifer’s home. “I have three teenagers, two boys and a…
What to Know About the Abortion Pill Side Effects
Veda has used both the so-called abortion pill and a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure to end two separate pregnancies. …
I started taking the pill when I was in college, not as a method of birth control, but because it…
Patients and doctors are clamoring to recall Essure, a nickel-based birth control device implanted into a woman’s fallopian tubes to…
Birth Control Pills
Though birth control pills, also known as oral contraceptives or “the pill,” are commonly prescribed, understanding all the facts about…
NuvaRing: Effective Birth Control But Risky
By Naomi Mannino When the birth control method NuvaRing hit the market in 2001, it offered an alternative to women…
Unsure about Essure Birth Control
Essure Birth Control I had only vaguely known of Essure as a permanent birth control device. It’s essentially 2 tiny…
DES (Diethylstilbestrol)
Diethylstilbestrol is a synthetic estrogen, one of the first to be developed. In the early 1950s doctors started giving DES to…
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