News tagged with hormonal contraceptive
AIDS prevention pill study halted; no benefit seen
Researchers are stopping a study that tests a daily pill to prevent infection with the AIDS virus in thousands of African women because partial results show no signs that the drug is doing any good.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy may protect women against brain aneurysms
Results from a new study suggest that oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may yield additional benefit of protecting against the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms in women. The findings from this ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Hormonal Contraceptives Have Mixed Success Among Overweight Women
As obesity continues to be a worldwide health risk, one of its “side effects” could include less effective birth control for overweight and obese women who use hormonal contraceptives.
Jul 09, 2010 |
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IUDs reduce pregnancy rates compared to hormonal contraceptives
Women who have had intrauterine devices (IUDs) fitted as contraceptives are less likely to become pregnant than those who have hormone injections, a new review by Cochrane Researchers has found. The review, which focused ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Hormonal contraceptives associated with higher risk of female sexual dysfunction
Women taking non-oral and oral hormonal contraceptives were at highest risk of Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD), according to a study of female German medical students published today in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. Inter ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 04, 2010 |
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'The pill' for him: Scientists find a hormonal on-and-off switch for male fertility
A new research report published in the December 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal could one day give men similar type of control over their fertility that women have had since the 1960s. That's because scientists have f ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Unnatural selection: Birth control pills may alter choice of partners
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, ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Couples to rely on male contraceptive for new trial
(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.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 20, 2009 |
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Oral contraceptives associated with increased risk of lupus
The ratio of women to men with the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is nine to one and the incidence increases after puberty. Hormones secreted by the body are therefore believed to play an important ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Grapefruit diet almost cost woman her leg
A woman who ate a grapefruit each day almost had to have her leg amputated because of a dangerous blood clot, according to an unusual case study reported in the Lancet.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Contraceptive use may be safe, but information gaps remain
Introduced in the 1960s, oral contraceptives have been used by about 80 percent of women in the United States at some point in their lives. For women without pre-existing risks for heart disease, the early formulations were ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 14, 2009 |
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