Morning-After Pill Study Contradicts Foes' Claim
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Providing women with easy access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B did not lead them to engage in more risky sexual behavior, a study of more than 2,000 women says.
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The maker of the morning-after pill said it received assurances Tuesday that the government would quickly settle a three-year battle to sell the emergency contraceptive without a prescription to at least some women.
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Pharmaceutical company Merck &amp; Co. &quot;strongly&quot; disagreed Thursday with the conclusions of a Food and Drug Administration-funded study that said use of the company&#39;s arthritis pain reliever Vioxx increased the risk of heart attack.
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Taking the contraceptive pill does not increase a woman's chance of developing cancer and could even reduce the risk of getting the killer disease, a major British medical study showed on Wednesday.
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Women's rights groups seeking easier access to emergency contraception are pressuring U.S. regulators as they try to decide whether to approve a non-prescription "morning-after" pill.
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The government is considering whether to make morning-after birth control available without a prescription, and like most issues that involve sex and pregnancy, it has generated heated debate.
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Women can buy the morning-after pill without a prescription, the government declared Thursday, a major step that nevertheless failed to quell the politically charged debate over access to emergency contraception.
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PHILADELPHIA - US health officials are warning of flawed research in two major studies that recently suggested birth control pills can reduce the risk of heart disease and have no effect on rates of breast cancer.
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An American nationwide study has told women that the birth control pill is safe. In fact, women on the pill have a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.
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Some of the health benefits claimed for a new weight loss drug may not be justified, say experts.
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The Pill, can reduce your risk of cancer and heart disease, a new study finds. Researchers at Wayne State University in Detroit used information from 162,000 women in the most comprehensive study on long term contraception.
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A hormone patch that works to restore a woman&#39;s sex drive should not be approved until additional studies to determine its risk, federal health advisers said today.
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The new finding that birth control pills may actually help a woman&#39;s health is raising several questions, not to mention a few eyebrows.
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Amid a battle in Congress over whether to allow nonprescription sales of the Plan B morning-after pill, nine women have complained that area pharmacies failed to carry the pills or keep them in stock.
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BITTER PILL: Federal officials say research was flawed in two major studies showing oral contraceptives cut the risk of heart disease and carried no increased risk of breast cancer - results contrary to many previous findings.
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The maker of the controversial diabetes pill Avandia on Tuesday published preliminary results of a study that the company claims show the drug does not raise heart risks. However, experts say the results are inconclusive and even seem to suggest more risk from the drug.