News tagged with emergency contraception pills
A new type of pill for emergency contraception
By year's end, U.S. women will have two types of emergency contraceptive pills to choose from.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 05, 2010 |
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FDA panel to consider new 'morning-after pill'
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will meet June 17 to consider whether the agency should approve a new emergency contraceptive that studies show is more effective than Plan B, the only "morning-after pill" ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 08, 2010 |
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FDA to allow 'morning-after' pill for 17-year-olds
(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 ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Education may improve hospital prescription rate of emergency contraception to teens
Many doctors don't offer emergency contraception pills to adolescents who may benefit from them during emergency department visits because of misinformation about how the medicine works, according to a study by The Children's ...
Mar 05, 2009 |
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