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  Timing Pregnancy an Important Health Concern for Women

  April 11, 2012 — A new article highlights the importance of a woman's ability to time her childbearing. The author asserts that contraception is a means of health promotion and women who work with their health care ... > full story
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  Injectable Contraceptives Linked to Breast Cancer Risk in Younger Women

  April 4, 2012 — The first large-scale U.S.-based study to evaluate the link between an injectable form of progestin-only birth control and breast cancer risk in young women has found that recent use of a year or ... > full story
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  Parsing the Pill's Impact on Women's Wages

  March 27, 2012 — About one-third of women's wage gains through the 1990s are due to the availability of oral contraceptives, according to a new study that's the first to quantify the Pill's impact on women's labor ... > full story
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  Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill Helps Painful Periods

  January 17, 2012 — A large Scandinavian study that has been running for 30 years has finally provided convincing evidence that the combined oral contraceptive pill does, indeed, alleviate the symptoms of painful ... > full story
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  Young Women Unknowingly Pack on the Pounds

  January 10, 2012 — Researchers found that a significant number of women evaluated at six-month intervals did not recognize recent gains in weight. Self-perception of weight gain appears to be significantly influenced ... > full story
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  Contraceptive Pill Associated With Increased Prostate Cancer Risk Worldwide, Study Finds

  November 14, 2011 — Use of the contraceptive pill is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer around the globe, new research ... > full story
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  Hormone in Birth Control Shot Linked to Memory Loss

  November 1, 2011 — The birth control shot Depo Provera offers a convenient alternative for women who don't want to remember to take a daily pill. Ironically, new research has shown the shot actually may impair a ... > full story
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  Not Your Mother's Birth Control, Same Troubles

  October 31, 2011 — Today's hormonal forms of contraception are vastly different than earlier forms, both with lower levels of hormones and with different means of delivery (not just a pill), but many of the same ... > full story
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  Some Contraceptive Pills More Likely to Cause Blood Clots, Study Confirms

  October 25, 2011 — A new study confirms previous findings that certain oral contraceptive pills are more likely to cause serious blood clots than ... > full story
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  Hormonal Contraception Doubles HIV Risk, Study Suggests

  October 3, 2011 — Researchers have found that women using hormonal contraception -- such as a birth control pill or a shot like Depo-Provera -- are at double the risk of acquiring HIV, and HIV-infected women who use ... > full story

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