With the help of their doctors, women planning to become pregnant should take an inventory of the medications they take, researchers from Canada advise.
In a study, they found that many pregnant women still take medications long known to cause birth defects.
Some medications with known fetal risk, such as drugs that control epilepsy, are essential during [...]
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Many women who are taking birth control pills are very happy to avoid unintended pregnancy but are blaming oral contraceptives for weight gain and fluid retention at the same time. Well, it is the undeniable fact that pills do cause weight gain in some women but not necessarily be the prime cause for all women. [...]
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More U.S. women are getting birth control services, according to a national data review.
Researcher Jennifer Frost, DrPH, with the Guttmacher Institute in New York, analyzed data from women ages 15 to 44 who were surveyed as part of the National Survey of Family Growth. Information collected in 1995 from 10,847 women was compared with data [...]
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Oral contraceptives cut women’s risk of ovarian cancer for more than 30 years after they stop taking them — giving the pill a net anticancer effect.
Each five-year interval of oral contraceptive use cuts a woman’s ovarian cancer risk by up to 29%. The longer a woman uses the pill, the lower her risk of ovarian [...]
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Women who stop the birth control pill and then try to get pregnant succeed just as quickly as women who have not taken oral contraceptives before trying to conceive, a new study suggests.
The impact that using the birth control pill has on future fertility has been debated for years. Some studies have shown women have [...]