ALLMedicine™ Contraception Center

Feb 26th, 2021 - Teen pregnancy prevention projects funded by the U.S. Office of Adolescent Health were disrupted by the Trump administration in the July 2017 announcement that funding would be terminated. Although funding was later reinstated toward the end of 20...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Most patients can safely begin using hormonal contraception at any point in their menstrual cycle. An evidence-based, flexible, patient-centered approach to initiating contraception promotes health and enhances patients' reproductive autonomy. A r...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Adolescents face many barriers to obtaining emergency contraception (EC) despite it being an approved and recommended method to prevent unintended pregnancy. This study examined pharmacy-related barriers to adolescents' access of EC in Louisiana. ...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Integrating family planning into child immunization services may address unmet need for contraception by offering family planning information and services to postpartum women during routine child immunization visits. However, policies and programs...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Contraceptive use among adolescent girls is low in many sub-Saharan African countries including Kenya. Attitude and perspectives about contraception of community members including adolescent girls themselves may be likely to limit contraceptive us...

Jun 5th, 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 9th, 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...

Feb 24th, 2020 - To develop an evidence-based guideline on contraception, assisted reproductive technologies (ART), fertility preservation with gonadotoxic therapy, use of menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), pregnancy assessment and management, and medic...

Sep 24th, 2019 - ABSTRACT: Barriers to access are one reason for inconsistent or nonuse of contraception. The requirement for a prescription can be an obstacle for some contraceptive users. Several studies have demonstrated that women are capable of using self-scr...

Sep 7th, 2019 - A recent study has attempted to estimate the primary sex ratio i.e. the sex ratio at conception, using a variety of studies in the extant literature. Starting with data at birth, the authors projected back in time, estimating foetal loss at each g...

Feb 26th, 2021 - Teen pregnancy prevention projects funded by the U.S. Office of Adolescent Health were disrupted by the Trump administration in the July 2017 announcement that funding would be terminated. Although funding was later reinstated toward the end of 20...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Most patients can safely begin using hormonal contraception at any point in their menstrual cycle. An evidence-based, flexible, patient-centered approach to initiating contraception promotes health and enhances patients' reproductive autonomy. A r...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Adolescents face many barriers to obtaining emergency contraception (EC) despite it being an approved and recommended method to prevent unintended pregnancy. This study examined pharmacy-related barriers to adolescents' access of EC in Louisiana. ...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Integrating family planning into child immunization services may address unmet need for contraception by offering family planning information and services to postpartum women during routine child immunization visits. However, policies and programs...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Contraceptive use among adolescent girls is low in many sub-Saharan African countries including Kenya. Attitude and perspectives about contraception of community members including adolescent girls themselves may be likely to limit contraceptive us...

Feb 21st, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I'm Andrew Kaunitz, professor and associate chair in the ob/gyn department at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville. Today I'd like to discuss the use of progestin intraut...

Feb 4th, 2021 - A levonorgestrel 52-mg intrauterine device (IUD) is noninferior to a copper IUD for emergency contraception, according to randomized trial results published online in The New England Journal of Medicine. Although the trial didn't directly compare ...

Jan 26th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I'm Andrew Kaunitz, professor and associate chair in the ob/gyn department at the University of Florida, College of Medicine in Jacksonville. Today I'd like to discuss good news from Britain rega...

Dec 7th, 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 24th, 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...