Although the older high-dose pill did carry health risks, those arising from the modern pill are generally thought to be minimal, and may well be offset by the protection the pill confers against some forms of cancer.
Each individual should discuss all the positives and negatives of the pill with a health care provider before deciding to use it, she said.
You've likely read that there's no magic pill for perfect health.
ORLANDO, FLA. - It's perhaps the ultimate health fantasy: that a commonly prescribed pill could stop cancer before it starts.
The FDA was preparing in 2011 to allow over-the-counter sale of the morning-after pill with no agency limits when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled her own scientists in an unprecedented move.
Caduet will also provide another big benefit for patients with health insurance: Because it is a single pill, patients will get both drugs for a single co-payment, making it inexpensive for them even after Norvasc becomes a cheap generic.
And features that encourage patients to take their medicine and ensure it is working well should make a pill more valuable to insurers and national health systems, and thus justify higher prices.
It requires constant vigilance against scam clinics, crooked providers, rogue labs, pill mills, vaporware vendors, and a scuzfest of health care bottom-feeders.
Twenty-seven percent of women and 34 percent of men in the survey said serious health problems such as cancer are likely to result from using the pill or other hormonal contraceptives.
Dr. Wolf, of Northwestern University, and other researchers, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, recently completed a trial testing a pill-bottle label that provides more explicit instructions and larger font size.
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Tuesday's decision lowers the age limit to 15 and will allow the pill to sit on drugstore shelves next to condoms and spermicides or other women's health products.
Last summer the health department decreed that all new health-insurance policies should cover birth-control services for women, including the morning-after pill (which most pro-lifers consider a form of abortion) and sterilisation.
The National Institutes of Health announced Monday that it had halted a clinical trial testing whether naproxen and Celebrex, an arthritis pill made by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), might prevent Alzheimer's disease.
The Dutch Health Minister, Els Borst, said the decision to allow Women on Waves to give out the abortion pill was in line with government policy regarding the sexual independence of women.
AIDS. In 1995, the pill was thought to have a possible link with thrombosis, a threat largely discounted by the World Health Organisation.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman has said that politics was behind efforts by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to block the unrestricted sale of the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill and its generic competitors.
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