Pharmac is consulting on funding a new progestogen-only oral contraceptive pill called desogestrel (branded as Cerazette) from 1 April 2025. A range of oral contraceptive pills are currently available ...

The empowerment of patients yields several benefits from the potential of increased uptake of preventative care measures to ...

Today 'the pill' is an association of ethinyl estradiol ... The current alternative (progestin-only contraception) is poorly tolerated in many women. Alternative solutions for oral contraception ...

What is interesting is that at 18 weeks post-initiation of treatment, the progestin-only pill group had a 12% decline in milk volume compared to only a 6.1% decline in women who were using ...

HR Pharma has filed for a prescription to OTC switch for Opill, a decades-old daily progestin-only pill, just a few weeks after its $2 billion takeover by Ireland-headquartered Perrigo was completed.

Days after President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Health and Human Services imposed an indefinite "pause" on ...

Medical researchers forced to compile national data by hand, silence on a major tuberculosis outbreak, and the erasure of ...

I figured I’d skip it. For a long time it looked as though my plan would work: I was in the latter half of my fifties before ...

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed strategies to identify regulators of intestinal hormone secretion. In response to incoming food, these hormones are secreted by rare hormone producing ...

Women aged 18 to 45 years with IBD were invited to complete a survey regarding knowledge, attitude, and beliefs about contraception.

Taking the contraceptive pill could dramatically slash the risk of developing ovarian cancer, according to research by the ...

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