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Help Reduce Gender-Related Distress for Patients in Reproductive Healthcare
The challenge for reproductive healthcare providers is meeting the needs of transgender and nonbinary patients in a way that reduces their gender-related distress.
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Medical Students Need More Training About Benefits of Birth Control Hormones
For medical students — in any discipline — to provide optimal care to women, they need to learn more about contraception, postpartum care, intimate partner violence, and sexual and reproductive health.
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Could Use of Oral Contraceptive Pill Help Asthma Symptoms?
A noncontraceptive benefit of people using oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) could be that these may help modulate asthma severity, new research suggests.
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Breastfeeding and Postpartum Contraception
Adequate birth spacing is an important way to reduce the risk of preterm births. For it to succeed, providers need to include contraception counseling when meeting with pregnant patients and also discuss patients’ contraception plans after delivery.
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Is Childbirth History Associated with Pain Level During Medication Abortion?
Patients who had painful childbirth experiences or a prior cesarean delivery reported more severe pain after receiving medication abortion, a new study shows.
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Contraceptive Access Initiative Can Help People in Suburban, Rural Areas
Indiana has a statewide contraceptive access initiative that works to improve contraceptive access over a large geographic area.
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Solutions to Ending Barriers to Permanent Contraception
Among various barriers to permanent contraception, the Medicaid waiting period is one of the chief challenges for the many pregnant women who are receiving Medicaid during their pregnancy. It is a 30-day waiting period that begins when a person signs the Medicaid sterilization form.
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Bilateral Salpingectomy: The Preferred Method of Permanent Contraception
Permanent contraception, specifically fallopian tube surgery, is the most common contraception method used both in the United States and throughout the world, and its popularity is growing as more people are choosing this method in the wake of the safe and effective use of bilateral tubal salpingectomy.
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Trends in Contraceptive Use Among Abortion Patients
In this cross-sectional study of 88,550 patients presenting for abortion services in England and Wales in 2018 and 2023, the use of effective methods of contraception decreased over time (hormonal methods: 18.8% vs. 11.3%, P < 0.001; long-acting reversible contraceptives: 3% vs. 0.6%, P < 0.001), while fertility awareness-based methods increased from 0.4% to 2.5% (P < 0.001).
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Study Shows Increased Interest in New Male Contraceptive Gel
People are interested in a reversible and effective male contraceptive at a time when researchers are closer than ever to making this a reality, studies show.