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Prevention
Improved methods of contraception can help prevent many unplanned pregnancies. This includes education related to abstinence, or, in the case of chosen sexual activity, contraception education.
Contraceptive methods do not always prevent pregnancy -- unplanned pregnancies occur even when couples practice adequate methods of contraception to the best of their abilities.
Sometimes, a woman c...
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Expert & Community Posts
Birth Control for Women over 30
By Amy Hendel , Health Expert...don't want to ever get pregnant - there's a choice of birth control that's a good fit for your... Read more »
NuvaRing and Norplant – Alternative Hormone Birth Control Options
By Amy Hendel , Health ExpertThe NuvaRing is a birth control option that is as effective as oral contraception, but you don't... Read more »
Plan B emergency contraception: What you need to know
By Amy Hendel , Health Expert...this drug. Do not use Plan B in place of routine birth control. For maximal effectiveness,... Read more »
The Pill
By Amy Hendel , Health ExpertWhen we talk about hormone methods of birth control we are primarily referring to a pill form of... Read more »
I don't want to get pregnant...What are my birth control options?
By Amy Hendel , Health Expert...pregnant in the first place? It all begins with birth control options and which one fits your... Read more »
Health Guide
The Morning After Pill
...that the morning after pill -- or emergency contraception -- works exactly the same way as the daily birth control pill. There is really no difference whatsoever. The morning after pill is... Read more »Emergency contraception
Emergency contraception is a method of birth control that can be used within 3 days of sexual intercourse. Alternative Names Morning-after pill; Postcoital contraception;... Read more »What You Need to Know About Birth Control
...evenly divided between intended and unintended (no contraception or failed contraception). If no birth control is used, there is a 25% chance that intercourse will result in a pregnancy. So if... Read more »Cervicitis
...for best protection against unwanted pregnancy. See your health care provider to discuss alternative contraceptive methods prior to stopping your present barrier method. Make sure that any... Read more »Birth Control Options for Women: Emergency Contraception
...ContraceptionEmergency contraception, also called the morning after pill, uses the hormones found in birth control pills to prevent either fertilization or the implantation of a fertilized egg in... Read more »Images
Medications
...womb (implantation). Besides preventing pregnancy, birth control pills have been shown to help... Read more »
...womb (implantation). Besides preventing pregnancy, birth control pills have been shown to help... Read more »
...womb (implantation). Besides preventing pregnancy, birth control pills have been shown to help... Read more »
...advice on missed doses. You may need to use back-up birth control (e.g., condoms, spermicide) to... Read more »
...advice on missed doses. You may need to use back-up birth control (e.g., condoms, spermicide) to... Read more »
Related News
Gene discovery may lead to male contraceptive
April 15, 2009Gene mutations that cause infertility in men could point the way to a male birth control pill, American and Iranian researchers say. Read summary »
Birth Control for Brain Injuries?
May 09, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A common ingredient in birth control pills may do more than prevent pregnancy it could also help prevent brain damage after a... Read summary »
Testosterone injections may act as male birth control
May 06, 2009According to the results of a new study in China, injectable testosterone may be an effective form of male contraception, though experts say the... Read summary »
Birth control may help prevent common vaginal infection
August 03, 2009New research suggests that women who are prone to the common vaginal infection known as bacterial vaginosis may be more successful at fighting the... Read summary »
Some British clinics to offer contraceptive pill without prescription
December 16, 2008Under a new controversial pilot program, some pharmacies in the United Kingdom will begin offering birth control pills without a prescription in... Read summary »
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