The accessibility of first-line oral emergency contraceptives in Australian community pharmacies is problematic—with a national survey finding almost one-third reporting they do not stock the ulipristal acetate pill that ...
May 31, 2024
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La Trobe University researchers have credited new contraceptive methods, such as long-acting reversible contraceptives, for the overall decrease in abortion rates among child-bearing women in Victoria, despite regional and ...
Feb 6, 2024
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Women with unwanted pregnancies will be exposed to higher risks of maternal mortality, increased bad pregnancy outcomes and greater divide in access to health care as a result of the recent Supreme Court overturn on Roe v. ...
Jul 5, 2022
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Browse any medical dictionary, and before hitting appendectomy and anesthesia, you'll find abortion.
Apr 18, 2022
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With college students back on campus, and COVID-19 with us for the foreseeable future, it has become increasingly clear that educators need to develop a new definition of safer sex.
Dec 3, 2021
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Among a group of American Indian and Alaska Native women interviewed, almost half (45%) reported experiencing reproductive coercion in their lifetime. Intimate partner violence and sexual violence contribute to a disproportionately ...
Nov 10, 2021
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The Biden administration reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Oct 4, 2021
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Black and Latinx individuals are often the focus of health educational efforts to "correct" perceived flawed beliefs about pregnancy in order to increase contraceptive use and reduce unintended pregnancies. In a study published ...
Sep 30, 2020
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Early unintended pregnancy can have negative consequences for adolescent girls and young women. Not only may their health be at risk; so may their education, economic mobility and productivity.
Sep 25, 2020
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Abortion rates are highest in countries that legally restrict access to terminations, but lowest in high-income countries where abortion and contraception are accessible, a new study has found.
Jul 24, 2020
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