http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) indicates that healthy, obese, reproductive-age women who use long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) containing the hormone progestin have a slightly increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes when compared to those who use non-hormonal contraception. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-contraceptive-pose-diabetes-obese-women.html Diabetes Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:53:57 EST news279478396 Conscience clauses, which allow pharmacists to opt out of providing the "morning after pill" without a prescription, risk unwanted pregnancies and undermine the principle of universal healthcare in the NHS, say pharmacists in the Journal of Medical Ethics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-unwarranted-pregnancies-morning-pill-conscience.html Medications Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:30:02 EST news278789690 Women using hormonal contraception --such as a birth control pill or a shot like Depo-Provera – are at double the risk of acquiring HIV, and HIV-infected women who use hormonal contraception have twice the risk of transmitting the virus to their HIV-uninfected male partners, according to a University of Washington-led study in Africa of nearly 3,800 couples. The study was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-lancet-hormonal-contraception-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:52:49 EST news236886732