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More treatment options available for women requiring emergency contraception.
2003 JAN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of an international study suggest that there are three effective therapeutic options for women requiring emergency contraception after sexual intercourse.
Hormone treatment with a single 10 mg dose of mifepristone, and two 0.75 mg doses of levonorgestrel 12 hours apart are known to be effective for emergency contraception - however there is no evidence to suggest that one treatment may be better than another, or that one dose of levonorgestrel may be as effective as two separate doses.
Helena von Hertzen and colleagues from the World Health Organization, Geneva, did a randomized trial in 15 family-planning clinics in 10 countries. Their work, published in the December 7, 2002, Lancet, described 4136 healthy women with regular menstrual cycles who requested emergency contraception within 5 days of unprotected sexual intercourse. The women were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 treatment groups: 10 mg single-dose mifepristone; 1.5 mg single-dose levonorgestrel; or two doses of 0.75 mg levonorgestrel given 12 hours apart.
There were no significant differences in pregnancy rates or side effects between the 3 groups, with an average pregnancy rate of around ...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) May 9, 2002 700+ words
...re seeing (emergency contraception) emerge as the...education campaign on emergency contraception, and another...in the nation requiring emergency rooms to make...information about emergency contraception, though not...
- Emergency Contraception Survey Shows Slow Start for California's New "Pharmacy...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 18, 2004 700+ words
...continues to deliberate whether emergency contraception will be made available "over...44 are aware of the statewide, emergency contraception "pharmacy access" program...2002, permits women to obtain emergency contraception directly from participating pharmacists...
- Emergency contraception must be available.(Columns)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) December 17, 2003 700+ words
...limited amount of time to obtain emergency contraception. But you need a prescription...considered whether Plan B, a type of emergency contraception, should be available over the...that widespread availability of emergency contraception could prevent 1.7 million unintended...
- Characteristics associated with emergency contraception use by family planning...
- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Whittaker, Paul G. Berger, Matthew Armstrong, Kay A. Felice, Toni L. Adams, Janet September 1, 2007 700+ words
Making emergency contraception available in advance of...associated with greater use of emergency contraception when needed, without adversely...frequently had unprotected sex, emergency contraception use was an uncommon event...
- Pharmacists and Emergency Contraception.
- Magazine article from: OB/GYN Clinical Alert January 1, 2005 700+ words
Pharmacists and Emergency Contraception Abstract & Commentary...pharmacists in providing emergency contraception. The recent decision...counter availability for emergency contraception has ensured that for...
- How Frequently is Emergency Contraception Prescribed? (RESEARCH NOTE).
- Readings on Emergency Contraception Grossman, Richard A. Grossman, Bryan D. January 1, 1996 700+ words
...investigated the frequency of prescribing emergency contraception. Hormonal emergency contraception had been prescribed by respondents...physicians. Fifteen IUD insertions for emergency contraception were performed in the preceding...
- Implementing an advance emergency contraception policy: what happens in the...
- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Whittaker, Paul G. Armstrong, Kay A. Adams, Janet September 1, 2008 700+ words
Emergency contraception is a safe, highly effective...that the Yuzpe regimen of emergency contraception (two doses of combined...Yet the availability of emergency contraception at pharmacies did not guarantee...
- Case Studies in Emergency Contraception From Six Countries. (ARTICLES).
- Readings on Emergency Contraception Glasier, Anna Ketting, Evert Palan, V.T. Browne, Lesley Kaur, Susheel Bilian, Xiao Garza-Flores, Josue Estrada, L. Vasquez Delano, Grace Faoye, Grace Ellertson, Charlotte Armstrong, Elizabeth January 1, 1996 700+ words
In countries where emergency contraception is offered, its availability and use vary...introducing and encouraging the acceptability of emergency contraception. Emergency contraception first became available in most of these countries...
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