The aim of the paper is to highlight topics pertinent to present-day birth control and contraception. On the background of new developments in the pharmacology of birth control and family planning, the paper discusses their relevance for improving the most efficacious methods of contraception, i.e., Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) and Emergency Contraception (EC). In doing so, it fo...

Consultant in Contraception and Sexual Health, C&SH Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, The Alec Turnbull Centre, Oxford, UK Specialist Trainee in Community Sexual & Reproductive Health, Department of Contraception & Sexual Health, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK Consultant in Contraception and Sexual Health, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley Group of Hospitals, Dudley, UK Clinical ...

Introduction: Fertility transition is outright by prime four proximate determinants (marriage, contraception, postpartum infecundability, and abortion). The present study examines the contributions of proximate determinants on fertility decline and quantifies inhibiting the effect of major proximate determinants according to the socioeconomic characteristics in Bangladesh.<br /...

Over 62 million women in the United States are of childbearing age and 60% of them use contraception. Subcutaneous contraceptives include implantable contraceptives and subcutaneous injections. Implantable contraception involves subdermal time-release of synthetic progestin, which allows for several years of continuous, highly effective contraception. Its main effects are inhibition of ovulatio...

The article presents the materials of a large-scale study devoted to contraceptive behavior female athletes reproductive age, representing different sports. It has been established that most commonly used types contraception, in all age categories, are: interrupted intercourse, spermicides, barrier contraception (male condoms), hormonal patches. rarely are (single-phase and three-phase combined...

OBJECTIVE: To study the level of knowledge of and attitude towards emergency contraception in a group of women requesting the termination of pregnancy. DESIGN: Structured questionnaire survey. SETTING: Family Planning Association and university teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS: Two hundred women who requested the termination of an unplanned pregnancy between May 1997 and March 1998. M...

Purpose: the article discusses possibility of using combined hormonal contraception, reasons for refusal and use in women high-risk groups. Methods: a review data 5 years was carried out, factors that led to this type contraception were analyzed. Information has been collected on guidelines action patients with high risk side effects contraception. Conclusions: women’s fear adverse events, form...

We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea using difference-in-difference design and fertility survey with information conception, contraception, labor supply arrangements. Childcare subsidies increased conception decreased contraception—an important mechanism for manipulating fertility. The arc elasticities responses contraception to are 0.65 ...

the donor, the recipient, and the doctors involved, the definitions of death, the uncertainty of recently evolved experimental techniques, and the problem of availability of organs and dialysis machines. Of a more fundamental nature are the scientific, social and religious repercussions and interactions which the authors suggest may lead to basic changes in attitudes to health and disease, life...