Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2010;5(6):673-686. Each year worldwide, over 380,000 women die from pregnancy and pregnancy-related causes. If contraception were made available to unprotected women, ...

Evidence published today on a new contraceptive option is providing one possible answer to an age-old question in family planning: how to address barriers that make it difficult for women to keep ...

A new contraceptive option provides a possible answer to an age-old question in family planning: how to address barriers that make it difficult for women to keep using contraception consistently.

SEATTLE – April 4, 2012 – The first large-scale U.S.-based study to evaluate the link between an injectable form of progestin-only birth control and breast cancer risk in young women has found that ...

Contraceptive injections are long-lasting forms of contraception, usually through the use of depot preparations of progestin medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA). They are touted to be highly effective ...

(HealthDay)—Self-administered subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) should be made available as an additional approach for contraception, according to research published in the May ...

Asian Woman using lancelet on finger. woman doing blood sugar test at home in a living room. A hormone injection used as a contraceptive prevents pregnancy. For 12 weeks, the injection is effective.

Depo-Provera is another progestin-only birth control method. It is an injection that protects against pregnancy for 3 months. Although Depo-Provera has been available for years in over 90 other ...

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Injectable progestin-only methods themselves will probably not change much in the next 5 years. An injection device has recently been introduced for the SQ formulation to reduce the risk of ...