Oral contraceptives ... 26 who had been using combined oral contraceptives, which contain both estrogen and progestin, for at least three months. Birth control pills increase the risk of ischemic ...

The study elaborated on how birth control pills contain ‘synthetic hormones ... aged 18-26 who had been using combined oral contraceptives for at least three months. The participants were ...

In the April issue of Arthritis Care & Research, Bernier et al. 2 reported that current use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) is associated with an increased risk of developing SLE (adjusted ...

Third-generation oral contraceptives are an association of low-dose ethinyl estradiol and potent testosterone-derived progestins, developed in order to improve general and vascular tolerance.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess age specific incidence and mortality of stroke, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and idiopathic venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with use of modern low dose ...

Women’s health specialist nurse Ruth Bailey provides an update on what GPNs need to know about offering emergency ...

Amy Parker ditched the Pill in February after ending her seven-year relationship. By May the thought of dating men filled her with 'disgust'.

Since Carl Djerassi and Gregory Pincus brought the proof of concept of OCs in the early 1960s, with a pill containing ... the 45 years of experience of oral contraceptives, with the improvement ...

A nurse claims a contraceptive pill nearly killed her after blaming aching muscles on working gruelling 12-hour shifts - that turned out to be a deadly blood clot 'caused by the pill'. Chloe Mangan ...