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There’s good news, ladies: A new type of birth control pill has been approved by the FDA! Quartette has a combination of levonorgestrel/ethinyl estradiol and ethinyl estradiol and can help prevent breakthrough bleeding. More
Use of emergency contraception has more than doubled recently, the New York Times reports. New federal data shows that between 2006 and 2010, 11% of sexually active women used the so-called “morning after pill,” up from 4% in 2002. And among early-twenty-somethings, almost 25% having used morning-after pills at some point. More
Think you’re practicing safe birth control by taking your birth control pills every morning? You may not be. Sandoz, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical company Novartis, is recalling a bunch of their birth control pills, because, oops, they placed the placebo pills in the wrong slots. Meaning, you might want to head to the drug store for a pregnancy test kit. More
The Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this week that it would add stronger warning labels to Yaz, Yasmin and other birth control pills containing drospirenone (a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone) about the associated risk of blood clots. But, the FDA emphasized, the risk is still small; smaller, in fact, than the risk of blood clots during pregnancy or the postpartum period, and small enough that women taking the pill shouldn’t worry and should “continue taking their pills as directed unless told otherwise by their healthcare professional.” But headlines like “FDA’s Yasmin and Yaz Blood Clots Warning is a Victory for Consumers” and “The Birth Control Warning You Need To Know About” would make you believe otherwise. So we spoke to Planned Parenthood‘s Vice President of External Medical Affairs, Vanessa Cullins, to find out what we really need to know. More
Whoa. Pharmaceutical giant Pfzer is recalling one million packs of birth control pills because they’re filled with placebos. Anyone who’s taken birth control pills knows that the last week’s worth of pills—the ones you take when you’re on your period—are merely sugar or placebo pills. Seems a ‘packaging error’ has resulted in these fake pills filling spots where active contraceptive pills should be. More
Heading into 2012, it seems the issue that’ll be dominating sexual health headlines is access to Plan B, the ‘morning after’ birth control pill. The next move in the ongoing political saga over emergency contraceptive sales lies with a federal judge in Brooklyn—and that could be a very good thing. More
Last week, amidst hints that the Food and Drug Administration might approve over-the-counter sales of ‘morning-after pill’ Plan B, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stepped in prevent that from happening. Now people are worrying that the Plan B ruling, along with FDA concern over certain newer-generation birth control pills such as Yaz, may have ‘long-lasting effects on women’s perceptions of’ birth control safety’ and ‘turn women off the pill.’ But I think it’s real health concerns, not just politics or press, that turns women off certain forms of birth control. More
The pill has come a long way since your mom (or grandma) started taking it. But not all the changes have been good ones: A large new Danish study says newer generations of birth control pills double your risk of venous thromboembolism, blood clots that form deep in the veins of legs and arms and could break off and spread to the lungs. Blood clots are a well-known side effect of hormonal contraception. But shouldn’t our newer generation of birth control pills be less dangerous than those that came before? More
Women who use hormonal birth control are better at remembering the gist of emotional events—but not the details, researchers say. Conversely, women experiencing ‘natural hormonal cycles’ are better at detail recollection. Graduate researcher Shawn Nielsen, who led the study, stresses that the … More
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Need to Think? Take a shower. (via The Globe and Mail)
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Your Lucky Socks — Might actually work. (via NPR)
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