For instance, women who smoke and are over age 45 should not use oral contraceptives.
This year, Mylan expects to launch worldwide more than 500 new products, including a line of generic oral contraceptives.
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But the research found that taking oral contraceptives did not offer the women less chance of developing the disease.
My first experience with oral contraceptives was Plan B, the emergency contraception pill.
Also notable is that oral contraceptives are singled out, among thousands of drugs, for special treatment through the ban on co-pay requirements.
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After studying the safety and efficacy of the low-dose pill, the ministry's Central Pharmaceutical Affairs Council agreed in February to approve oral contraceptives.
Carnitine is MUCH safer for your heart than oral contraceptives are.
For all these reasons, some women already try to achieve the same effect as Seasonale by taking one pack of regular oral contraceptives straight after another.
She also stressed that modern oral contraceptives have much lower hormone doses in them than the older ones, which caused an unacceptably high number of adverse effects.
Many developed countries require a prescription for oral contraceptives, including Canada and most of Europe, but other countries sell the pill without a prescription even formally or informally.
According to the National Cancer Institute, oral contraceptives have been shown to increase the risk of cervical cancer, although human papillomavirus is the major risk factor for the disease.
The pancreatic beta cells have estrogen RECEPTORS. Estrogenic receptors trigger insulin release which is why they tell women on oral contraceptives to watch out for strokes and heart problems.
While he was health minister last year, the populist Naoto Kan announced that the Health and Welfare Ministry was in the process of lifting the ban on oral contraceptives.
For one, female soldiers tend to have more risk factors for breast cancer including chemical exposures, longterm use of oral contraceptives and nighttime shift-work than their civilian peers.
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended last year that oral contraceptives be sold over the counter in an effort to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies in the United States.
Mr Frans Roumen, a gynaecologist at the Atrium Medisch Centrum in Heerlen, in the Netherlands, said his studies, published in the journal Human Reproduction showed it to be as effective as oral contraceptives.
There is also evidence that oral contraceptives decrease the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer, but that they increase the risk of liver cancer in women who are otherwise considered at low risk for the disease.
Christine Hitchcock, who works at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulatory Research at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, worries that there is not enough research to show the long-term effects of the extended use of oral contraceptives on the breast.
While oral contraceptives have a good safety record (and Barr Laboratories' trial of 1, 400 women showed no evidence that Seasonale is riskier than conventional contraceptive pills, except for a higher incidence of irregular bleeding in the first few months of use), Dr Hitchcock is keen to see women exercise caution when it comes to prolonged use of anything containing sex hormones.
The result: a rat task-force, a rat tsar, a rat hotline (500 calls already) and fiendish talk of limiting the rodent population by distributing contraceptives (presumably of the oral sort).
The factory runs on diesel generators and currently makes oral and injectable hormonal contraceptives, which the Muktadirs plan to export to emerging markets.
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