Articles Tagged With: Contraception
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Reproductive Healthcare in Adolescents with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
This cohort study of 3,723 female adolescents from the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system in California found that adolescents with autism or developmental disability were less likely to see an OB/GYN or be prescribed contraception compared with their typically developing peers. This study identified disparities present in reproductive healthcare for this population, despite higher rates of menstrual-related diagnoses.
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Digital Contraceptive Decision Aid Has Potential to Help Match Patients to Best Option
Providers and patients who would like a little help in contraceptive counseling and decision-making could use a new tool — a digital contraceptive decision aid — that could enhance women’s confidence and satisfaction with their contraceptive recommendation, new research shows.
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Revisions to CDC’s Two Contraceptive Guidelines Address Management of Side Effects
The latest updates to contraceptive guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) include recommendations for people with chronic kidney disease, human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV) infection risk, chronic diseases, and conditions such as obesity, surgery, breastfeeding, and postabortion.
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A Tubal Sterilization Knowledge and Decision Aid Support Tool: Does it Make a Difference?
A patient-centered decision aid that improves tubal sterilization knowledge and decision-making quality may be able to fill gaps in counseling and supplement the existing Medicaid sterilization consent process.
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Opill’s Access Is Great, But Price Is Too Steep for Youth
As Opill, the first over-the-counter (OTC) oral birth control pill to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), makes its way to grocery stores and pharmacies across the country, its usefulness remains a question mark for many young people.
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Preconception Consult Should Include Advice on Contraception
Separating preconception and contraceptive counseling between OB/GYNs and patients burdens patients and fractures reproductive healthcare. A better solution is to look at pregnancy planning, pregnancy prevention, and risk evaluation holistically.
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Male Contraceptive Gel Is Most Promising Option in that Arena
Researchers have released positive results from a Phase II study of Nestorone/testosterone (NES/T) transdermal gel, the first male contraception method to progress to Phase II clinical trials.
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Permanent Contraception Skyrocketed in Period Soon After the Supreme Court Decision
New research shows a large increase in the rate of permanent contraception procedures among young women in the period from June 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023 — mostly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision on June 24, 2022.
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Second Anniversary of Dobbs Decision Shows Vastly Different World for Pregnant Americans
The two years following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and women’s right to privacy in their most intimate healthcare decisions have created an entirely different landscape for people capable of pregnancy in America.
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Prenatal Patient-Centered Contraceptive Counseling Is Important
New research suggests that pregnant patients who are interested in permanent contraception are offered information and counseling on this option late in their pregnancy, making it less likely they will access that option.