The Greatest Story Never Told
BBC News Health
28 September 2010 Last updated at 20:17 ET
By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News
European experts are hopeful that the coil contraceptive device could be used to delay womb cancer.
Promising early trial findings show an intrauterine device (IUD) can deliver hormones to the womb lining to halt and even reverse cancer growth.
Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure
Scientific American
By Craig H. Kinsley and Elizabeth A. Meyer September 28, 2010
It seems that weekly we hear about some professional athlete who sullies himself and his sport through abuse of steroids. The melodrama unfolds, careers and statistics are brought low and asterisked, and everyone bemoans another fallen competitor. Yet there are millions of cases of steroid use that occur daily with barely a second thought: Millions of women take birth control pills, blithely unaware that their effects may be subtly seeping into and modulating brain structure and activity.
Daily Mail Online
United Kingdom
11th September 2010
Girls as young as 13 are to be given the contraceptive Pill without seeing a doctor.
For the first time, teenagers below the legal age of consent will be able to get the Pill from high street pharmacies in a project that could eventually be adopted nationwide.
The scheme is being introduced to try to give young girls greater access to contraception in an attempt to reduce soaring underage pregnancy rates.
Dr. Mercola
July 10, 2010
The birth control pill was first introduced to the American public for contraceptive use in 1960. By 2002, 11.6 million US women were on “the Pill” according to CDC statistics[1], making it the nation’s leading method of contraception.
Eighty percent of American women have used oral contraceptives at some point in their lives, according to a paper in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology[2].
Deccan Chronicle
July 7th, 2010
By Dr Vijay V. Shah
While there are several contraception options available to women, it is important to make an informed choice before you decide to pop any pill to prevent getting pregnant. In addition to what kind of pill you should take, you need to be aware of the process involved in taking the pill, when to take it, when to stop and when to continue.
HealthCanal.com
New Rochelle, NY, – New birth control guidelines released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) could undermine mothers who want to breastfeed by sanctioning the use of progesterone injections, progestin-only pills, as well as combined (progestin-estrogen) oral contraceptives within the first month after giving birth.
June 25, 2010
“The new guidelines ignore basic facts about how breastfeeding works,” says Dr. Gerald Calnen, President of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM). “Mothers start making milk due to the natural fall in progesterone after birth. An injection of artificial progesterone could completely derail this process.”
The birth control revolution brought freedom to countless women. It brought misery to me
Salon.com
Monday, May 3, 2010 07:01 ET
by Geraldine Sealey
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the pill’s introduction in the United States, a milestone that has inspired a raft of retrospective, largely celebratory media coverage. A Time cover story credited the pill with “rearranging the furniture of human relations.” A New York Times Op-Ed by historian Elaine Tyler May hailed the oral contraceptive as “a tool for women’s emancipation.”
EmpowHer
by Hannah Cutts
April 1, 2010
Taking a class on women’s health and bodies, I was struck by a simple phrase repeatedly emphasized by my professor: “new drugs are new.” Her tone was cautionary, meaning to illustrate that while scientific advancement for women’s health is fantastically important, the creation of new drugs means that women are using products with unknown long-term side effects. New medicines and hypotheses, even those enhancing women’s lives, are minimally tested and offered to the public without full information.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine – Volume 53, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 16-30
by Moira Howes
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Abstract:
Analyses of menstrual function are important to our understanding of human evolution and can help to assess the risks of menstrual suppression, a practice increasingly recommended for women.
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