All Entries in the "Birth Control" Category
The Usage Of Emergency Contraception
Emergency contraception is a safety method that is used after having unprotected intercourse, to eliminate the possibility of unwanted pregnancy. This is also known as postcoital contraception or the morning-after pill. These are legal ways of averting from pregnancy as abortion and contraception are two very different terms. Emergency contraception performs the task of avoiding [...]
How Is The Female Condom Different From The Male Condom?
Certainly the female condom is less popular than the male condom, which is far more widely used and also much more widely available around the world. As the name suggests the female condom is to be used by the women, and may be inserted into the vagina prior to intercourse. Intercourse does not have to [...]
Morning After Pill ‘Ella’ Approved By FDA
A new emergency contraception or morning after pill ‘Ella’ has been approved by the FDA. This new drug in tablet form may offer protection from an unwanted pregnancy if taken up to 5 days after having unprotected sex or failure of contraception. The FDA has approved this prescription only drug unanimously, but has warned that [...]
Emergency Contraceptive: Knowing Which Is Best For You
If you had sexual intercourse the night before and failed to use protection, you’re most likely to get pregnant. Today, many women fear of carrying a child in their womb. Maybe because they don’t want to get into an unplanned pregnancy or are just too young to be mothers. Their best option to prevent getting [...]
Women Opting For Long Term Birth Control
It is a fact that birth control methods do sometimes fail – a prophylactic such as a condom may fail and a woman may well forget to take a pill or two in a month, with the result that unwanted pregnancies do occur. For this and other reasons, women now opt for long term birth [...]
The Best And Effective Contraceptive For You
Whether you are single or have a family, it is a wise choice to plan pregnancies. Although pregnancy is a normal phenomenon, it entails vast physiological, social, emotional and psychological changes to a woman. Birth spacing will give time for the woman to fully recover from the stress of the previous pregnancy and will give [...]
Birth Control Pills – A Look Back At 50 Years (InfoGraphic)
The truth about how birth control pills influence the female health
The Birth Control Pill – 50 Years Later
It brought with it a revolution when the birth control pill was first made available 50 years ago. It was supposed to make each child a wanted child, and offer reproductive freedom to couples and choices for women not available previously. Apart from birth control, the pill is prescribed to help with painful periods, fight [...]
