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See the mechanics, side effects, and failure rates for common birth control methods in this illustrated slideshow from WebMD's medical editors. Withdrawal, hormones, the IUD, and many more are explained with pictures.
The article looks on several risks for an unplanned pregnancy as explained by obstetric Katharine O'Connell White. White says that using birth control incorrectly, such as waiting to take contraceptive pills until the menstrual bleeding stops and g...
This article provides a review of fertility research in advanced societies, where birth control is the default option. The central aim is to provide a comprehensive review that summarizes how contemporary research has explained ongoing and expected fertility changes across time and space. The core det...
during which I discussed the dramatic evolution of lupus in a relatively short amount of time. I explained how lupus used to be an old person’s disease. Then, with the rollout of birth control, doctors were alarmed that they began to see young women coming into their clinics with lupus....
men and women; she explained how some people recalled “How they almost missed filling their prescription,” she said, “or they had to run to the pharmacy at the last minute to pick up their girlfriend’s birth control pills, or they had a condom break and needed emergency contraception....
Cancer:Oral contraceptives might increase breast and cervical cancer risk. The longer you take hormonal birth control pills, the higher your risk might be.16 Gallbladder disease:Some types of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and progestin-only pills, might increase gallbladder disease risk, al...
It can't be explained why! BUT I think it is the old "mind over matter", just like when you hear stories of women trying for years to have a baby, they stop trying adopt and WHAM they are pregnant! I'ts almost as though they STOPPED all the stress! I also think that when women...
“I’m caring for older women using birth control to stabilize hormone levels as they enter perimenopause, with its attendant wide hormonal swings,” she informed me. She also prescribes birth control pills for acne,dysmenorrhea, irregular periods, PMS, and to help prevent migraines that ...