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 | May 18, 2005 | Birth Control Archive
Study: Oral Contraceptives Boost Herpes Shedding Ecuador Physicians Fight vs. MAP/EC STUDY: ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES BOOST HERPES SHEDDINGFor women with genital herpes, taking oral contraceptives can double the likelihood of actively shedding the virus and so passing on...