What do the changes to IUD access mean for Australian women?
IUDs are small devices implanted in the uterus to prevent pregnancy. Finding a doctor to insert an IUD can be difficult and ...
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What do the changes to IUD access mean for Australian women?
These have a failure rate of 8-9% with typical use. The hormonal IUDs' contraceptive effect lasts for eight years, while a copper IUD can last up to ten years, depending on the type. The ...
Scientists discover type of contraception that makes you almost 4 times more likely to have a heart attack - and it's not The Pill
Danish researchers found women who took The Pill doubled their risk of heart attack and stroke but it wasn't the form of ...
This popular birth control method can multiply your risk of heart attack by 3.8 times
After adjusting for factors such as age, education, high blood pressure and diabetes, researchers linked the estrogen-progestin pill — known colloquially as the birth control pill — to twice the risk ...
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Safety and Efficacy of the Levonorgestrel-releasing Intrauterine System
A PubMed search (data locking point 27 August 2012) was performed with the following search terms: levonorgestrel-releasing or Mirena® (Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany) or intrauterine system with the ...
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Condoms, IUDs removed from Indiana bill seeking to expand birth control access
Republican lawmakers have removed condoms and long-acting contraceptives from a proposed Indiana program that seeks to ...
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Contraception and Lactation
Nonhormonal methods of contraception, such as barrier methods or the copper intrauterine device (IUD), are the preferred choice for nursing mothers, because hormones in some contraceptive methods ...