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Articles Tagged With: Contraception

  • OB/GYN Quarterly Update: What healthcare providers should know about detecting thyroidal conditions

    Thyroid dysfunction and disease might present as reproductive compromise including oligomenorrhea, infertility, and miscarriage.
  • More condom use by teen males reported

    The safer sex message is reaching adolescents. Results of a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows the percentage of teen males ages 15-19 in the United States who used a condom the first time they had sex increased between 2002 and 2006-2010.
  • New data emerges on one-size diaphragm

    The contraceptive options for women who cannot use hormonal methods might soon expand if regulatory approval is given to a new single-size diaphragm. Results of a two-year multi-site study of 450 U.S. couples indicate the effectiveness rates of the SILCS single size, contoured diaphragm, now in development, are similar to traditional diaphragms.
  • Just in: IUDs reduce cervical cancer risk

    To perform the study, researchers designed a pooled analysis of individual data from two large studies by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an international collaboration on cancer research, and the Institut Català d'Oncologia, a Spanish-based oncology research program.
  • More clinicians put US MEC into practice

    Are you implementing guidance from the US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2010, (US MEC) released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
  • Washington Watch: Medicaid targeted by budget hawks

    At the federal and state levels, cutting government spending has led the political agenda in 2011, and conservative policymakers have specifically targeted Medicaid.
  • What will it take to boost vasectomy use?

    While vasectomy is a safe, simple, effective form of contraception, female sterilization is the preferred method of sterilization among couples in the United States. About 17% of women between ages 15-44 have had tubal sterilizations, while only 6% rely on male sterilization for birth control.
  • EPT gets support from ACOG

    If you haven't included expedited partner therapy (EPT) in your practice of treating patients with gonorrhea and chlamydia, more support for the measure has arrived in the form of a new committee opinion from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
  • HPV vaccine rates trail teen vaccines

    Results from a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that teen vaccination rates for human papillomavirus (HPV) remain low in comparison with other vaccines administered to young adults.
  • Potential link found between hormonal contraception, HIV risk

    Results from an analysis presented at the recent 2011 International AIDS Society conference in Rome suggest that using certain methods of hormonal contraception particularly injectable contraception might double the risk of HIV acquisition in a previously uninfected woman and also might double the risk that an HIV- infected woman will transmit HIV to a previously uninfected male sexual partner.