Health
What your hair can tell you about your health
Hair speaks volumes. The way we cut, style and color often acts as a representation of who we are.
Mar 19, 2024
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News tagged with contraceptive pill
Medications
Everything you need to know about the new over-the-counter birth control pill coming to retailers
After approval from the Food and Drug Administration last summer, Opill, a daily oral contraceptive, is now coming to retailers, making it the first birth control pill available without a prescription.
Mar 6, 2024
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Medications
What is Ryeqo, the recently approved medicine for endometriosis?
For women diagnosed with endometriosis it is often a long sentence of chronic pain and cramping that impacts their daily life. It is a condition that is both difficult to diagnose and treat, with many women needing either ...
Feb 26, 2024
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
New model creates an understanding of birth control pills regarding risk, resilience to depression
While birth control hormones given to mice result in lower stress levels, the mice showed normal corticosterone responses to stress when given newer formulations of the pill, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Jan 11, 2024
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Study finds contraception has been used by almost all sexually experienced women
Almost all sexually-experienced women of reproductive age have used contraception, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in the National Health Statistics Reports, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
Dec 15, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Hormonal contraceptive users process stress differently at the molecular and psychological level, finds study
A new UCLA Health study is shedding light on how using hormonal contraceptive pills may affect women's responses to stress and their risk for inflammation-related illnesses.
Dec 6, 2023
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Health
Japan trials over-the-counter 'morning-after' pill
Japan began a pilot project on Tuesday selling over-the-counter "morning-after" contraceptive pills, but campaigners criticized the scheme as far too small and called for all restrictions to be lifted.
Nov 28, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Investigating the constant performance monitoring that takes place in our brains
Psychologist Myrthe Jansen conducted research into the performance monitoring that constantly takes place in our heads. People with obsessive-compulsive symptoms are more afraid to make a mistake that harms others than when ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Medications
Blood clotting risk quickly drops after stopping hormonal contraceptives, finds study
Using birth control pills and other hormone-based contraceptives is known to elevate the risk of blood clots about three-fold, but a new study suggests that this risk largely goes away within two to four weeks after one stops ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Oral contraceptive pill users less likely to report depression, according to study
A new study has shown that women who are taking the oral contraceptive pill are less likely to report depression.
Nov 1, 2023
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