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Intimate partner violence (IPV) and reproductive and sexual coercion disproportionately affect women. Such behavior is aimed at establishing control of one partner over the other.
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Women continue to choose long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods, say respondents to the 2013 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey.
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Responses to the 2013 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey indicate that many clinicians have moved to remove one hurdle to contraception by adopting the Quick Start method of method initiation.
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Results of the 2013 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey indicate that use of the NuvaRing contraceptive vaginal ring and the Evra contraceptive patch is consistent with 2012's figures.
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New research from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) indicates that for many postmenopausal women, combined hormone therapy does not have a clinically significant effect on their health-related quality of life.
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With fluoroquinolone-resistant gonorrhea becoming more common in the United States, clinicians have looked to two treatment alternatives, cefixime and ceftriaxone, to combat the sexually transmitted disease (STD).
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Since the NuvaRing contraceptive vaginal ring (Organon, West Orange, NJ) entered the U.S. market in mid-2002, new research has been published that underscores its efficacy and acceptability.
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It is estimated some 50 million women in the United States are screened on an annual basis with Pap tests. Clinicians now have another tool in their arsenal that will help distinguish women at increased risk of developing cervical cancer from those at very low risk.
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Your next patient is a young married woman who is unable to use hormonal birth control and is not interested in using an intrauterine device. Because she wants to have more children, sterilization is not an option at the present time. What contraceptive methods are available to her?
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When it comes to emergency contraception (EC), does its availability and use impact ongoing contraceptive methods? Initial research from one study indicates that adolescent mothers who are given a supply of EC are no less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control than teen mothers who are not given EC.
