ALLMedicine™ Hormonal Contraception Center

May 14th, 2022 - How does hormonal contraceptive use and menstrual cycle phase affect the female microbiome across different body sites? The menstrual cycle phase, but not hormonal contraceptive use, is associated with the vaginal and oral but not the gut microbio...

Apr 29th, 2022 - Direct prescription of hormonal contraception (HC) by pharmacists, without a doctor's visit or medical prescription, is a strategy to improve access to contraception and reduce unintended pregnancy. Oregon is the first state in the nation to imple...

Apr 19th, 2022 - We examined whether hormonal contraception (HC) use predicts sexual frequency throughout and across young women's intimate relationships. From 2008-2012, the Relationships Dynamics and Social Life Study collected weekly surveys over 2.5 years, and...

Apr 12th, 2022 - To assess the association between higher-than-normal BMI and incidence of premenopausal ovarian and breast cancers. This prospective cohort study included 461,646 women registered in the Danish Medical Birth Registry with self-reported early adult...

Apr 8th, 2022 - Background Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is the term describing a syndrome of provoked, localized allodynia of the vestibule of the vulva, not explained by another condition, and lasting more than 3 months. PVD is not a defined disease but rather ...

Jun 6th, 2020 - COVID-19 is associated with a systemic inflammatory response with activation of coagulation in symptomatic patients. The possibility of coagulopathies in peri- and postmenopausal women taking estrogen therapies makes it necessary to consider antit...

Apr 10th, 2020 - "U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use" (U.S. MEC) 2016 provides evidence-based guidance for the safe use of contraceptive methods among U.S. women with certain characteristics or medical conditions (1). The U.S. MEC is adapted f...

Jun 7th, 2019 - Rare ovarian tumours include complex borderline ovarian tumours, sex-cord tumours, germ cell tumours and rare epithelial tumours. Indications and modalities of fertility preservation (FP), infertility management, contraindications for hormonal con...

Jan 27th, 2019 - Although numerous studies have addressed the safety and effectiveness of hormonal contraceptive use in healthy women, data regarding women with underlying medical conditions or other special circumstances are limited. The U.S. Medical Eligibility ...

Jan 27th, 2019 - Although numerous studies have addressed the safety and effectiveness of hormonal contraceptive use in healthy women, data regarding women with underlying medical conditions or other special circumstances are limited. The U.S. Medical Eligibility ...

Apr 29th, 2022 - Direct prescription of hormonal contraception (HC) by pharmacists, without a doctor's visit or medical prescription, is a strategy to improve access to contraception and reduce unintended pregnancy. Oregon is the first state in the nation to imple...

Apr 8th, 2022 - Background Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is the term describing a syndrome of provoked, localized allodynia of the vestibule of the vulva, not explained by another condition, and lasting more than 3 months. PVD is not a defined disease but rather ...

Feb 4th, 2022 - Physicians counsel women participants who are candidates for hormonal contraception about available combined hormonal contraceptive methods (the combined pill, the contraceptive vaginal ring [i.e., the etonogestrel + ethinylestradiol vaginal ring]...

Jan 6th, 2022 - This study can be classified as a phase 1, single center, and drug-drug interaction (DDI) study. The within-subjects' experimental procedures will assess pharmacokinetic interactions between ethanol (EtOH) and PT150 (900 mg qd) in non-treatment-se...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Measuring brain perfusion is biased by a inter- and intrasubject variability, caused by physiological and lifestyle factors. In this study, the investigators want to investigate the variations in cerebral perfusion and other brain parameters (grey...

Jan 6th, 2022 - Women who were immunized against COVID-19 experienced a slight, but non-significant, change in the length of their menstrual cycle compared with those who were unvaccinated, according to a retrospective cohort analysis. Patients experienced less t...

Jan 4th, 2022 - In a large-scale study among Danish children, no statistically significant association was found between maternal hormonal contraception use and increased risk for central nervous system (CNS) tumors in their offspring. The study was based on popu...

Apr 13th, 2021 - FDA and CDC officials recommended pausing administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine "out of an abundance of caution," and mainly for the benefit of healthcare providers to diagnose, treat, and report severe adverse events, the agenc...

Dec 8th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States has decreased to approximately 45%, based on data published in 2016, and "for the first ti...

Nov 25th, 2020 - (Reuters Health) - Premenopausal women with asthma who use oral contraception that contains estrogen may be less likely to experience severe exacerbations, a new study suggests. An analysis of data from more than 80,000 women with asthma found a s...