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  1. Despite Backlash, W.Va. Teen Stands By Calling Pro-Abstinence Speaker 'Slut Shamer'

    Fri, 28 Jun 2013

    some of her speeches on YouTube. One contained a message for mothers who allow or encourage their daughters to go on the birth control pill . "This girl is going to end up sterile or dead," Stenzel says on the video. Campbell decided to boycott the talk

  2. Court: Hobby Lobby Can Challenge Health Care Law

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    beliefs. The owners contend the morning- and week-after birth control pills are tantamount to abortion because they can prevent a fertilized than 30 businesses in several states have challenged the contraception mandate, but Hobby Lobby's case is the first to be decided

  3. 'Masterpiece' Prepping 'Breathless' Medical Drama

    Thu, 20 Jun 2013

    the tumultuous '60s. Set in a busy gynecology unit, it inhabits a world where abortion is illegal and the new contraceptive pill is only available to married women. Premiering on "Masterpiece" in 2014, "Breathless" was announced Thursday

  4. Texas Teen Who Sued Parents Over Abortion Clash Back With Mom

    Fri, 14 Jun 2013

    We'll get you on birth control. I don't want you to set yourself up to fail." But Reagan stopped taking her birth control pills – and soon after discovered that she was pregnant. She told Evan, who was shocked by the news. "[I] wasn't expecting

  5. Birth Control Breakdown: Plan B Access and Alternatives

    Tue, 11 Jun 2013

    a judge's order to make emergency contraception available to girls of any age without B works compared to other forms of contraception -- temporary and permanent. (Sources resume after stopping the injections. The Pill Oral contraceptives, available by week for a menstrual period. Like the pill , it cuts the risk of pregnancy by

  6. Obama Abandons Birth Control Fight, One Less Distraction

    Tue, 11 Jun 2013

    the one-step version of the pill . The ruling wasn't exactly availability of having emergency contraception over the counter and probably the one-step version of the pill . But it will allow the FDA low-cost options for emergency contraception will help determine whether be able to get access to the pill . And the government also

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  1. 9 Ways To Prevent a Stroke

    Mon, 10 Jun 2013

    pregnant ups your risk, as does pregnancy-related complications, like preeclampsia and gestational diabetes. Prebaby birth control pills also increase your chances—so do hormone replacement therapies to relieve menopause symptoms later in life. Mood might

  2. Possible New Birth Control Method for Men

    Tue, 4 Jun 2013

    gender discrimination." Of course, men could just keep using condoms, instead of them (or their partners) taking birth control pills , injections or the like. But for those who want to be extra safe, or for those who have a long-term partner and dislike

  3. Arizona Twins Suffer Strokes at 26, Only Months Apart

    Tue, 28 May 2013

    smokers. They were also migraine sufferers and had been taking birth control pills . It was discovered later that Kathryn Tucker had a PFO really good" now that she has stopped smoking and taking the pill . The twins said they were also worried about their overuse

  4. Removing Ovaries to Cut Cancer Risk: Another Tough Choice

    Wed, 15 May 2013

    cancer include taking oral contraceptives or the birth - control pill , which has been shown to dramatically reduce the by as much as 60 percent in women who have taken the pill for three or more years. There may be a similar

  5. What Dr. Ashton Wants You to Take Away From Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy

    Tue, 14 May 2013

    to reduce cancer risk. For example, some women take a drug called tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer and others take birth - control pills to prevent ovarian cancer. These decisions are individual, highly personal and often times very difficult ones for a

  6. Obama Backs 'Plan B' Pill for Teen Girls

    Thu, 2 May 2013

    opposed the sale of emergency contraception to girls as young as 10 federal judge's order to sell the pill to women of all ages. Women's praised the efforts to allow the pill to be sold to some minors right to obtain emergency contraception without unjustified and burdensome

  7. No ID and Need Plan B? Here's What Happens

    Thu, 2 May 2013

    Plan B, an emergency contraception that should be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex organizations but it also means that girls and women who want the pill will have to prove they meet the minimum age requirement. And that can be a problem for some. People who request the pill will have to show a driver's license, passport or birth

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  1. New Contraception Suspends Menstruation

    Fri, 15 Dec 2006

    safe. The oral contraceptive marketed continuous oral contraceptive regiment to giving the pill on an intermittent you look contraception really is the form of birth control pills either intermittent continuous birth control pills or other protesting contraception . Relatively they started the pill . And they

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    there are more options available to women. Either in the form of birth control pills either intermittent or continuous birth control pills or other forms of contraception which they can individually feel comfortable with. But there is a higher usage rate. That's the main benefit so this I think is a study that shows that there is another alternative coming down the pike for continuous. Low dose estrogen and protesting contraception . Relatively quick question doctor downing. Why the pregnancies during this during this study a couple one there were some patients that -- actually already pregnant when they started the pill . And -- they were very very early in the pregnancy. Two is that there's not a 100% efficacy -- well abstinence that's the only one that's a 100% efficacy. Efficacious but there is always a small breakthrough population -- and anti contraceptive. Study. The reasons mr. try to -- to get as low dose of contraception as possible to minimize the side effects of the estrogen emperor Justin. While the same time still suppressing population. And getting that
  2. Birth Control Pill Yaz Dangerous for Women?

    Tue, 6 Dec 2011

    country's most popular birth control pills . It's called for women. A birth control pill but also affected anything. All birth control pills come with some higher risks other birth control pills and George this

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    whether to require new warnings on one of the country's most popular birth control pills . It's called yeah -- has been marketed as something of a magic pill to treat common ailments while prevents pregnancy. US sales totaled nearly 800 million dollars in 2009. But new research suggests that -- -- endangering some women. Here's one actually anchor Chris Cuomo. The film born and turn. Yeah has pitched as a dream come true for women. A birth control pill but also affected at easing severe PMS. Even clearing up your skin that's the only animal sounds like American -- 24 year
    Right now. Can you see me now. Can you see anything. All birth control pills come with some risk two to four women for 101000 will suffer blood clots but with jazz which is made by bear
    alleged victims are so it. Saying yes has higher risks -- other birth control pills and George this is the important point they say. They can show that bear was aware of the risks and concealed. The
  3. "Third Generation" Oral Contraceptives

    Wed, 14 Feb 2007

    History of contraception that is how hormones in the birth control pills . Lowering combination. Oral contraceptive birth control pill . And it's versions of the pill described versions of the pill are still of with a birth control pill . Not this

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    Let's start by asking you to give us a brief. History of contraception that is how it's changed over the years since first introduced in the 1960s. Well specifically with oral contraceptives when they first came out they had a very high levels they were first estrogen alone. Tell that was shown that that caused some problems with the lining of the uterus and then progesterone was added. Over the years they've been able to decrease the amount of hormones in the birth control pills . Lowering them to a level that are still -- to prevent pregnancy but not and that higher range that caused some of
  4. Oral Contraception And Heart Conditions?

    Mon, 28 Jan 2008

    first need to clarify with their cardiologists what the heart condition is. Taking oral which oral birth control pills or oral contraception . Typically years. Would raise and there ask of having a blood clot if they have a specific form of

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    cardiologists what the heart condition is. Taking oral -- -- which oral birth control pills or oral contraception . Typically years. Would raise and there -- ask of having a blood clot if they have a specific form of heart disease.
  5. Is Birth Control a Libido Killer?

    Thu, 16 Sep 2010

    luster since going on the pill believe it or not oral contraceptive may cause libido up after taking the pill and that's because most women who take the pill have a issue. No learn about the birth control pill in the side effects

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    tell all my students listen if you want to learn about the birth control pill in the side effects yet to know how it works of the pill works by preventing pregnancy by shrinking the body. And it's already pregnant so what side effects. Nausea weight gain breast tenderness of
  6. Scientists: The Male Birth Control Pill

    Fri, 17 Aug 2012

    scientists think that they finally have the elusive. Male birth control pill finalized well maybe by the end of the decades we still a molecule that could really lead to reversible. Male birth control pill Basically moves into the bloodstream it goes down the wedding

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    an interesting one scientists think that they finally have the elusive. Male birth control pill finalized -- well maybe by the end of the decades we still got a ways to go. But listen that this -- from a Harvard where. Around my baby making days yes exactly right but apparently Harvard and Baylor University ever done some studies and they found a molecule that could really lead to -- reversible. Male birth control pill -- Basically moves into the bloodstream it goes down -- the wedding tackle as you say and that goes there's -- yeah.
  7. Birth Control and Heart Disease

    Wed, 7 Nov 2007

    raising concern about the affect birth control pills could have on plaque in your arteries in the arteries and the effect of the pill . heart attacks but let me ask you the women who have been taking the birth control pill what did they do this morning maybe switching to another form of contraception but certainly no need to panic

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    reported Tuesday at the American Heart Association raising concern about the affect birth control pills could have on plaque in your arteries what does this mean for heart disease. ABC news medical editor doctor Timothy Johnson joining
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