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(Ivanhoe Newswire)—Nearly half of all unintended pregnancies in the United States are due to contraceptive failure, and it’s largely because of inconsistent or incorrect use. That’s what researchers at Washington University concluded after studying the effectiveness of long-acting reversible contraception. Birth-control pills are the most commonly used reversible contraceptive in the country, but they’re only effective if women remember to take a pill every day and have easy access...
Intrauterine devices (IUDs) should be used routinely to provide emergency contraception, according to the authors of the first systematic review of all available data from the past 35 years. They found that IUDs had a failure rate of less than one per thousand and were a more effective form of emergency contraception than the "morning after pill". In addition, IUDs continued to protect women from unwanted pregnancy for many more years if they were left in place. The research, which is...
FRAZER, Pa., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly half of women aged 18-49 who have been pregnant (43 percent) report that they have had one or more accidental or unintended pregnancies, according to results from Contraception in America: A National Landmark Survey of Women of Reproductive Age and Physicians Treating Women(i),sponsored by Teva Women's Health, Inc. In fact, nearly half of the 3.1 million unintended pregnancies that occur in the U.S. each year occur in women who...
FRAZER, Pa., May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Teva Women's Health today announced new data from the Company's expanding women's health franchise will be featured at the 60th Annual Clinical Meeting of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) in San Diego, California, May 5-9, 2012. Featured presentations and abstracts will include new data on Plan B One-Step® (levonorgestrel) tablet 1.5mg, the only one pill emergency contraceptive available over-the-counter to...
A Statement from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today President Obama announced that women will have free preventive care that includes contraceptive services no matter where they work, while simultaneously accommodating religious institutions that may object to contraception. The policy ensures that if a woman works for a religiously affiliated employer with objections to offering contraceptive...
The student health center at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania installed a vending machine where students can get the “morning-after” pill for $25, reports Daily Mail’s Jill Reilly. It doesn’t appear that any other vending machine in the US dispenses the contraceptive, which can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after sexual intercourse. Shippensburg, a secluded public institution of 8,300 students in the Cumberland Valley, provides the Plan B One Step emergency...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued the following response to the February 2 post on the White House blog. Full text follows: The Obama administration, to justify its widely criticized mandate for contraception and sterilization coverage in private health plans, has posted a set of false and misleading claims on the White House blog ("Health Reform, Preventive Services, and Religious Institutions,"...
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has had to recall some one million packages of birth control pills after post-production investigations indicated that some of the packages may not contain enough contraceptive to prevent pregnancy. Pfizer Inc. has voluntarily recalled 14 batches of their popular Lo/Ovral-28 tablets and 14 batches of Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets . The company reported that due to production irregularities some of the packages may not contain the clinically-proven...
COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Republican presidential primary is just days away and South Carolina voters are questioning the candidates about mounting legislation across the country and at their own Statehouse that puts basic individual rights at risk. At the forefront is a person's right to make decisions about their own health and the health of their families. Advocates point to a long-gathering movement to take away access to birth control, in-vitro...
MDs, NPs, CNMs, PAs, RNs and other health professionals can earn up to 15.8 CME/CE Hours. Dublin, CA (PRWEB) January 07, 2012 Contemporary Forums, a leading provider of continuing education (CE) for health care professionals, announces it is offering a live webcast option from the San Francisco Contraceptive Technology Conference, taking place March 8-10, 2012. The web cast will include virtual participation in all the plenary sessions, along with Concurrent Sessions 11, 21, 31, 41 &...
