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While countries like Japan, Canada and Australia hand out "baby bonuses" to encourage people to have children, couples in one part of India are getting cash to do just the opposite. http://phys.org/news223183091.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:20:01 EST news223183091 By year's end, U.S. women will have two types of emergency contraceptive pills to choose from. http://phys.org/news205502346.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:40:01 EST news205502346 A US regulatory agency on Friday approved an emergency contraceptive pill that can prevent pregnancy if taken up to five days after unprotected sex. http://phys.org/news200991183.html Medicine & Health Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:40:01 EST news200991183 (AP) -- The pill is still the No. 1 contraceptive for American women, but it's even more popular in other countries, according the first government report comparing nations. http://phys.org/news194098345.html Medicine & Health Wed, 26 May 2010 13:30:04 EST news194098345 A new study presented today at the World Congress on Osteoporosis (IOF WCO-ECCEO10) in Florence, Italy shows that DMPA, a commonly used injectible contraceptive, is associated with higher risk of bone fracture when used alone, and not in combination with estrogens. http://phys.org/news192371052.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 May 2010 13:50:01 EST news192371052 (AP) -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says. http://phys.org/news187622629.html Medicine & Health Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:24:43 EST news187622629 Youth development programmes that tackle deprivation and help children and young people enjoy school are successful in reducing teenage pregnancy rates, say researchers in BMJ today. http://phys.org/news177312458.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:50:01 EST news177312458 A European study has defined the profile for the usage of long-acting contraceptive methods. The work, presented with the National Congress of Gynaecology award, shows, amongst other things, that 10% of women use these methods, the majority over 30 years old. http://phys.org/news175952271.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:50:01 EST news175952271 There is no doubt that modern contraception has enabled women to have unprecedented control over their own fertility. However, is it possible that the use of oral contraceptives is interfering with a woman's ability to choose, compete for and retain her preferred mate? A new paper published by Cell Press in the October issue of the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution reviews emerging evidence suggesting that contraceptive methods which alter a woman's natural hormonal cycles may have an underappreciated impact on choice of partners for both women and men and, possibly, reproductive success. http://phys.org/news174140457.html Biology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:10:01 EST news174140457 (PhysOrg.com) -- A genetic mutation that lies behind one type of male infertility has been discovered by researchers at Oxford University, Ghent University in Belgium, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the USA. http://phys.org/news167401452.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:00:02 EST news167401452 Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens, according to the study "Changing Behavior Risk for Pregnancy Among High School Students in the United States, 1991," by John S. Santelli, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in conjunction with researchers at Guttmacher Institute. http://phys.org/news164509408.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:40:01 EST news164509408 Researchers have known for more than half a century that sperm is able to fertilize an egg only after it has resided for a period of time in the female reproductive tract. Without this specific interaction with the female body, the sperm is incapable of producing offspring. But until now there was very little understanding of what changes occur within the sperm that suddenly allows it to fertilize an egg. http://phys.org/news163780913.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:42:12 EST news163780913 (PhysOrg.com) -- Couples are being asked to replace their usual form of birth control with a new male contraceptive in a study to test its effectiveness. http://phys.org/news162053568.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 May 2009 15:53:40 EST news162053568 Researchers in China may have found a method for male contraception that is effective, reversible and without serious short-term adverse effects according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). http://phys.org/news160643886.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 08:18:27 EST news160643886 (AP) -- Women's groups cheered the government's decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens. http://phys.org/news159643844.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:31:34 EST news159643844 In a potential advance toward a male contraceptive pill and new treatments for infertility, researchers are reporting the identification of key biochemical changes that put sperm “in the mood” for fertilization. http://phys.org/news158424284.html Chemistry Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:45:14 EST news158424284 A newly discovered genetic abnormality that appears to prevent some men from conceiving children could be the key for developing a male contraceptive, according to University of Iowa researchers reporting their findings in the April 2 online edition of the American Journal of Human Genetics. http://phys.org/news157894976.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:49:34 EST news157894976 Women's health is increasingly undervalued in conflicts over reproductive rights, including clashes based on moral objections under so-called conscience clauses, a new study by a University of Illinois legal expert found. http://phys.org/news157818920.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:36:22 EST news157818920 (PhysOrg.com) -- An expert in health services at The University of Nottingham is calling for urgent action to improve contraceptive advice and services to reduce the growing number of repeat teenage pregnancies in the United Kingdom. http://phys.org/news152204668.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:05:04 EST news152204668 Making the contraceptive pill available without prescription will not reduce unwanted pregnancies, says an expert in an article published on bmj.com today. http://phys.org/news149311814.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:30:14 EST news149311814 New data from The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University demonstrate that many women think condoms undermine sexual pleasure, but those who use both hormonal contraception and condoms report higher overall sexual satisfaction. http://phys.org/news147975662.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:21:02 EST news147975662 Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine may be one step closer to understanding why past oral contraceptive use dramatically lowers the risk of ovarian and uterine cancers later in life. http://phys.org/news143737633.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:07:13 EST news143737633 The contraceptive pill may disrupt women's natural ability to choose a partner genetically dissimilar to themselves, research at the University of Liverpool has found. http://phys.org/news137824489.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:34:49 EST news137824489