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Antidepressants may impair driving abilityPeople taking prescription antidepressants appear to drive worse than people who aren't taking such drugs, and depressed people on antidepressants have even more trouble concentrating and reacting behind the wheel.
Contraceptive pill influences partner choiceThe contraceptive pill may disrupt women's natural ability to choose a partner genetically dissimilar to themselves, research at the Universities of Liverpool and Newcastle has found.
Abortion rate rising in young girls, UKAbortion rates are rising in young girls in UK and some of them are vey young, a report released by the Department of Health, UK.
Oral contraceptive pills can protect against ovarian cancerUse of oral contraceptives during a woman's life-time gives substantial long-term protection against ovarian cancer and the longer they are used, the greater the reduction in risk. These are the conclusions of authors of an Article in this week's edition of The Lancet - a medical journal in the United Kingdom.
Ortho Evra contraceptive transdermal birth control patch label updateThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved additional changes to the Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal (Skin) Patch label to include the results of a new epidemiology study that found that users of the birth control patch were at higher risk of developing serious blood clots, also known as venous thromboembolism (VTE), than women using birth control pills. VTE can lead to pulmonary embolism.
New warning for nonoxynol 9 OTC contraceptives in USThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule that requires that manufacturers of over-the-counter (OTC) stand-alone vaginal contraceptive and spermicidal products containing the chemical ingredient nonoxynol 9 (N9) include a warning that the chemical N9 does not provide protection against infection from HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) or other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).