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Continuous Bleeding & the Progesterone Challenge
Continuous menstrual flow is a problem that you may encounter with some peri-menopausal patients. Adding progesterone at normal physiologic doses may adequately address the issue and control the bleeding. But when it does not...
These contraceptive earrings could prevent unwanted pregnancies
Researchers are developing contraceptive jewelry to discreetly administer birth control hormones, but they could be years from hitting the market.
Does Some Birth Control Raise Depression Risk? That's Complicated
A study finding that using hormonal birth control raises women's risk of depression raised a lot of eyebrows, but also shows how much we still don't know about women's health.
“All the Weird Things I Did When I Was Pregnant”
Risks and Benefits of Hormonal Contraception
This Medical News story discusses the risks and benefits of hormonal contraception in light of recent research assessing the association between contemporary hormonal contraception use and breast cancer risk.
Hormone therapy: Take it or leave it?
New guidelines aim to clear up the confusion about menopausal hormone therapy.
What Are ‘Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals’?
Is use of hormonal contraception associated with depression?
A closer analysis of a recent study that found an increased risk for depression and first use of anti-depressant when using hormonal contraception.
Why You Should Consider Trying This Underrated Form of Birth Control
How Your Body Changes When You Switch BC
Are your Hormones Making you Miserable?
ARE YOUR HORMONES out of balance? Does your life feel like a song played badly out of tune? If so, the problem may have to do with imbalances in your hormones, which are wreaking havoc on your body and mind. There is one hormone in particular I am going to focus on today, and it …
Which "Big Mouth" Hormone Monster Are You?
Over Hormonal Birth Control? There Are (Lots of!) Other Options
Is hormone therapy safe for women over 65?
Breaking the cycle: women are learning to love their hormones
To be labelled ‘hormonal’ used to be an insult. Now women are reclaiming the role of oestrogen in their lives. Eva Wiseman reveals how a new generation is being ‘empowered’ by their hormones
Why Are Millennials Ditching Hormonal Birth Control?
No Condoms, No Hormones, No Babies: A Guide to Natural Family Planning
A discussion about natural family planning and the fertility awareness method.
Hormonal Contraception and Risk for Breast Cancer: Many Caveats
This large-scale study is an important contribution to the literature, notes Dr JoAnn Manson, but should it change practice?
Hormonal Contraceptives Increase the Risk of Suicide and Suicide Attempts
While the side effects and risks of hormonal contraceptives are well-known, little attention has been paid to this life-threatening potential side effect.
Hormonal contraceptives cause abortions, researchers find
Three physician-researchers have found evidence that women using hormonal birth control do conceive children, who are then destroyed by the chemicals in an early abortion.
Hormonal Birth Control, The Pill, and the Wellness Creep
Yesterday, New York Magazine’s The Cut published a story about hormonal birth control. Like other pieces in the expanding universe of pseudo-confessional health reporting, it’s a story about a woman who also happens to be a writer having doubts about what the medical establishment has told her. She begins by questioning what The Pill is doing to her body, a concern that is shared, she writes, by “many women I know.”
