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 [...]
A recent article published in Nature Communications Medicine has reported the launch of a non-hormonal, reversible male contraceptive with 99% effectiveness in animal trials. The drug YCT-529, which was tested in both mice and primates, inhibits the retinoic acid receptor [...]
A recent study provides worrying evidence on the relationship between the use of certain contraceptive treatments and the prevalence of depression in women who use them. The authors of the paper say that “[their] findings support that oral contraceptive use [...]
Nature Communications has just published the findings of a study coordinated by Jochen Buck of Weill Cornell Medicine (United States), which claims that inhibitors of an enzyme called soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC) can reduce sperm motility in mice and humans. sAC is an enzyme that is [...]
The male contraceptive pill is not hormonal and drastically reduces spermatogenesis. A non-hormonal male contraceptive with 99% efficacy and no side effects has been discovered after research carried out on mice. A team of researchers from the Gunda Georg Laboratory [...]
China’s demographic control policy has been an issue of concern, primarily due to its one-child policy and the female discrimination before birth, with abortion prescribed by law for those who go over quota. These long time measures have led to [...]
UN response to pandemic questioned Political differences between the Trump Administration and the UN are known. In the current crisis, Trump warned the UN not to use American funding to impose abortion in its global campaign. Access to abortion as [...]
Bioethics and conscientious objection have a close relationship from a personalist point of view. Furthermore, true medical deontology needs the right to conscientious objection of health professionals in certain circumstances. Last Wednesday, an article published in English newspaper The Guardian announced [...]
An extensive systematic review published recently assesses the current scientific evidence on the potential for pregnancy and subsequent embryo loss in women who use intrauterine devices – IUD -as a contraceptive method, to analyze the post-fertilization action mechanisms responsible for [...]
Access to free contraceptives for 12-year-old children is becoming ever closer in France. Emmanuel Macron’s government wants to extend the free provision of contraceptive methods to children under the age of 15 years, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). If the [...]
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 [...]
Abortion colonialism is stopped. Kenya accused the previous US government of causing moral decay by promoting abortion. The Kenya Medical Practitioners Board says it made the decision after investigating complaints that the American group’s adverts – Marie Stopes – were [...]
