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Category Archive for 'Birth Control'

The issue of whether or not oral birth control pills increase the risk of breast cancer or not, has been confusing and contradictory for at least the last 20 years. It is certainly an ongoing concern in the minds of many women and clinicians. This recent prospective cohort study from the Denmark national data base […]

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Sixteen healthy women who had taken a low dose oral contraceptive (OC) with 20 mcg ethinylestradiol + 0.15 mg desogesterol for at least 3 months participated in this study. A 50% ethanol extract of St. John’s wort 250 mg twice daily standardized to 0.2% hypericin (1 mg/day) and < 0.2%(< 1mg/day) hyperforin was initiated day […]

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One of the purposes of this blog forum is to pass on information in women’s health in the form of new products in the area of women’s health. There are two products I’d like to tell you about this month. One is a newer barrier method form of birth control, called the FemCap. This replaces […]

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