by APFLI | Sep 6, 2006 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Implanon Implantable Device Approved The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an implantable contraceptive and abortifacient device called Implanon. Implanon is made by Organon USA, Inc. Implanon is an off-white, non-biodegradable,...
by APFLI | Aug 30, 2006 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
On July 31, 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it was working with the manufacturer of the Plan B. "Morning after Pill," Duramed Research, Inc., to resolve the remaining policy issues preventing Plan B from being sold...
by APFLI | Feb 1, 2006 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Natural Fertility Awareness For a look at natural methods that prevent pregnancy without the chemical pollution and possible abortifacient or pre-implantation effects of the pill, patch, the shot, or emergency contraception (EC/Morning After Pill, MAP), go to...
by APFLI | Jan 10, 2006 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
The entire Alabama Congressional Delegation contacted AL Department of Public Health Director Dr. Donald Williamson in 2004, urging him to stop dispensing Emergency Contraception (also called Plan B, or the Morning After Pill) in county health departments. Dr....
by APFLI | Dec 24, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
A prominent advocate for Plan B, the morning-after pill [Emergency Contraception], admitted today that "real world" experience of easy access to the drug has not reduced the numbers of pregnancies or abortions. Pressed by CWA's Wendy Wright at the...
by APFLI | Oct 1, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill, Studies - Breast Cancer
[Comment: When will the pharmaceutical industry and their feminist sales force – left-wing women’s groups – stop messing with women’s bodies by pushing sales of steroidal hormones (used in menopausal therapy and oral contraceptives)? Drug...
by APFLI | Aug 30, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Click here to view a power point presentation produced by AAPLOG to present the information presently available on Emergency Contraception, EC, also know as the Morning After Pill (MAP). ...
by APFLI | Aug 24, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Press Release, Friday, 26 August 05 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced 26Aug05 that it needs public input to decide whether Plan B, the “morning-after pill,” can be sold both without a prescription for those aged 17 and over, yet require a...
by APFLI | Aug 24, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Dear Dr. Crawford: On behalf of the members of Alabama Physicians For Life, Inc., I am again writing to ask you to raise the bar for medical safety by refusing to release emergency contraception (EC) over-the-counter (OTC), for the following reasons. Sexual...
by APFLI | Aug 11, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
A new report form the Alan Guttmacher Institute provides wide ranging statistics and demographic information on women who had abortions. In addition to reporting that [surgical] abortion numbers continued to drop in 2001 and 2002, the report contains findings that may...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Australia House of Representative Notice Paper[to Australia Health Minister Tony Abbott, 2June04, with questions about levonorgestrel MAP]*3613 MR MURPHY: To ask the Minister for Health and Ageing –(1) In respect of the sale without prescription of the drug...
by APFLI | Mar 12, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Doctors at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine have tested a gel that when applied topically in the vagina, may help prevent infection by both H.I.V. and herpes simplex virus. AIDS researchers have long sought such a microbicide. The effectiveness of the gel, called...
by APFLI | Feb 20, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Scientists Refute Study Touting The Pill's Benefits Mechanism of Action for Oral Contraceptives Described SCIENTISTS REFUTE STUDY TOUTING PILL'S BENEFITS — A recent study touting a list of unexpected health benefits for the birth-control...
by APFLI | Jan 28, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Keeping women and adolescent girls safe for a little longer, the Food and Drug Administration announced its intention on Friday, January 21, to put off its decision on whether to allow over-the-counter availability for Plan B, an emergency contraceptive. Barr...
by APFLI | Jan 28, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
DEPO-PROVERA LABELED: LINKED TO BONE DENSITY LOSS The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a "black box warning" — the strongest possible FDA warning issued — to the labeling of the Depo-Provera drug, noting that extended use of...
by APFLI | Jan 19, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Summary: In some ways, the introduction of abortion in pill form is not that newsworthy… pills appear more medical and simple–and the more medical and simple a practice appears, the more acceptable it appears. The abortion lobby is fully aware of this and...
by APFLI | Jan 10, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
“…this study should be interpreted as telling us that emergency contraception [EC/MAP] is not of any benefit when given in advance for patients to have on hand, or when easily available from a pharmacist, compared to having to obtain a prescription to...
by APFLI | Jan 5, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Scottish Study Shows Emergency Contraception (EC/MAP) Does Not Reduce Surgical Abortion Rates Contraceptive Pill Increases Risk of Stroke Among Migraine Sufferers Consumer Reports Magazine Rates Condoms ADVANCED PROVISION OF EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION DOES...
by APFLI | Nov 27, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Depo Provera Increases Chance of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea Women who use the injected contraceptive Depo-Provera have a higher rate of sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. researchers [National Institutes of Health, UNC, and Johns Hopkins Univ in Baltimore] reported. This...
by APFLI | Nov 27, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
FDA Issues ‘Black Box” Warning for Depo-Provera New Research Shows Dangers of Condoms in HIV Prevention UK Sex Ed/ Condom Program Backfires FDA ISSUES ‘BLACK BOX’ WARNING FOR DEPO-PROVERA, Long-Term Use Linked to...