A recent meta-analysis evaluates the efficacy of low-dose mifepristone as an emergency contraceptive compared to other interventions. Beyond its effectiveness in reducing pregnancy rates, its mechanism of action and ability to interfere with endometrial receptivity has reignited the debate surrounding [...]
Japan has liberalized the dispensing of the postcoital contraceptive pill by authorizing the pharmaceutical company ASKA to sell its drug NORLEVO without a prescription, thus joining the trend promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO). The new regulations allow the [...]
Background On April 15, 2015, the postcoital contraceptive ellaOne®, manufactured by HRA Pharma, became a prescription-free medicine, following a change in policy by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The Spanish Association of Social Pharmacy (AEFAS) then requested a change in [...]
The fact that oral contraceptives can have objective side effects, especially thrombotic problems, is well proven (see HERE). Now, another side effect has been added: depression and suicide. Indeed, the German Federal Institute for Drugs has recently made public a [...]
Physicians and medical personnel conscientious objection to abortion and prescription of the morning-after pill One of the problems that most concerns healthcare professionals who train at the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH), a faculty of Royal College of [...]
“Worryingly there is evidence that parents may be underestimating their daughters’ mental health needs” According to a major study by University College London which tracked more than 10,000 teenagers found widespread emotional problems among today’s youth, with misery, loneliness and [...]
