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Migraines Found To Increase Stroke Risk

...hemic stroke in patients ages 16 to 44. The use of contraceptive pills, wine and cigarettes as well as blood pressu... from the consumption of wine, cigarettes, and the contraceptive pills....

Contraceptive pills may lead to deformities in babies

...portant as a substantial amount of women take oral contraceptive pills, and always have a chance of having a concep...ise they are pregnant. Mice which were exposed to contraceptive ethinylestradiol, and similar oestrogenic chemical, bisphenol A, had the similar results with prosta...

Spray on contraceptive clears Phase I trial

...tive results for its Phase I clinical results of a contraceptive for women in the form of a spray. The novel contraceptive spray called Nestorone MDTS is being developed in collaboration with a US-based research group 'The ...

Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives May Increase Risk For Heart Attack Or Stroke

...t attack and stroke -- among current low-dose oral contraceptive users was doubled compared to non-users. The fin...prompt consideration of alternative therapeutic or contraceptive interventions," he wrote. "A number of women with metabolic syndrome or polycystic ovary syndrome ...

Contemplating the effects of the “Morning After“ Pill

... recent study has shown that the ''morning after'' contraceptive pills work// by interfering with ovulation thereby preventing fertilization and not by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg. Reproductive physiologists demonstrated the phenomenon in a controlled clinical trial published in the December 2004...

Pause as you please

...king menstruation over longer timespans.Taking the contraceptive pill continuously - without taking the monthly cycle of sugar pills - can delay periods in most women, but usually only for about four months. The new drugs were tested on rhesus macaque monkeys because the bodily mechanisms controlling their perio...

Limiting sperm motility for contraception

...lity could be an enticing target for a new type of contraceptive that could be taken by either men or women to bloc... nowhere else in the body, making it likely that a contraceptive that targets CatSper would have fat fewer side effects than a hormone-based contraceptive. Discovery...

New ! Male Contraception

... and shots are among the many choices in a woman's contraceptive repertoire. Until now, men have had little to choose from, so researchers have been searching for new options. Now, they may have one.// Condoms have a user-failure rate of up to 12 percent. Vasectomies are considered permanent. Dr. Wang, of Harbor-...

They Call It PMS Because Mad Cow Disease Was Already Taken

...vic congestion. For the first time, low dose oral contraceptive with a unique progestin and dosing regimen has bee... PMDD. The participants were given either the oral contraceptive or a placebo. Women who were given the oral contraceptive had significantly greater improvement (48....

Indian Health Ministry approves sale of Emergency contraceptives as over the counter drug

...in such situations as unprotected sexual exposure, contraceptive accident or forced sex," Dr. Suneeta Mittal of All...ersy as a risk factor for breast cancer. Emergency contraceptive pills have fewer side effects compared to normal contraceptives and costs around 30 rupees and the g...

Dermaseptins: Potent vaginal contraceptives

...rtant to identify and evaluate a new generation of contraceptive antimicrobial agents can be used vaginally in effe... that it would be interesting to develop a vaginal contraceptive with these compounds that have many biologic properties. In their study, to be published in Contra...

The Falling Sperm Count In Men

...tting slowly polluted more so by women taking oral contraceptive pills. These are excreted in the urine and increase the level of estrogen in the water. This in turn when ingested increases its level in the blood and causes problem with male fertility. The synthetic contraceptives are more difficult to get rid of...

Women can now gauge their own future fertility

...elopment has been hailed to be as important as the contraceptive pill, as it will give women the same control over their fertility as the Pill. Women have a fixed number of eggs, which decline as they age. According to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, a woman is half as fertile at 35 as she is a...

Perimenopausal Hormone Therapy Fights Heart Disease

... disease. Prof Kaplan was of the opinion that oral contraceptive pills were to be recommended since animal research demonstrated the wisdom of stocking up on oestrogen before menopause....

Mother Claims Hefty Compensation For Failed Abortion Of Twins

...he was having twins. "They ought to have known the contraceptive jag could have masked the symptoms of continuing pregnancy," she adds. The trust is now saying that at that time there was no clinical evidence to suggest that there were twins, "There is a recognized incidence of failed suction termination, particu...

Usage Of Oral Contraceptives Need Not Be Feared By SLE Patients

.... Initially clinicians are very hesitant to give contraceptive pills (orally) to the patients with SLE because of the fear that they might show increased and unwanted disease activity. This study which included 183 women with inactive or stable SLE were given oral contraceptives (triphasic 35 μg.ethinylestradi...

a New Pill Can eliminate menstruation

...omen more empowered. They have now developed a new contraceptive pill that promises to eliminate menstruation compl...n gets when she takes a seven-day break from other contraceptive pills is in fact triggered simply by the sudden drop in hormones. However, in the case of the new ...

Women Who Take Pill - Risk Losing Their Sex Drive

New York: Women who use oral contraceptive pills can lose their sex drive for up to a year after they stop taking it according to a recent study//. Loss of libido, muted or non-existent orgasms and painful intercourse have long been known as side effects of the pill. A previous research had...

Islamic Medical Ethics opposes Irreversible contraceptive and surrogate motherhood.

...e to their illness. The board opposed irreversible contraceptive use, organ transplantation from dead but allowed organ transplantation from live patients, surrogating babies and reproductive cloning but allowed the use of genetic engineering for treatment of cancer and other chronic diseases. Source: ANI....

Male Contraceptive Pill Being Developed By Berlin Pharmaceutical

...ned promising results in the development of a male contraceptive pill//. The male contraceptive, which comes almost 45 years after Schering developed the female contraceptive pill, is just skin deep - in the form of an implanted hormonal capsule and an injection given every ...

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