Women using DMPA injection more likely to acquire HIV than women using NET-EN
Women who used an injectable contraceptive called DMPA were more likely to acquire HIV than women using a similar product called NET-EN, according to a secondary analysis of data from a large HIV...
View ArticleInjectable hormonal contraceptive appears to increase HIV risk in women
Women using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), commonly known as Depo-Provera or the birth control shot, have a moderately increased risk of becoming infected with HIV, a large meta-analysis of...
View ArticleNew study provides biological explanation for how DMPA increases risk of HIV...
In recent years, evidence has been building that injectable contraceptive depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera or DMPA) is associated with an increased risk of HIV infection. Now a study...
View ArticleStudy analyzes pediatric ED visits attributed to injuries due to legal...
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) found injuries related to legal interventions, or contact with law enforcement,...
View ArticleSelf-injection of contraceptive feasible, acceptable among women in...
Self-injection of the contraceptive Sayana® Press is both feasible and highly acceptable among women participating in the first such research study conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, according to results...
View ArticleClimbing cost of decades-old drugs threatens to break Medicaid bank
Skyrocketing price tags for new drugs to treat rare diseases have stoked outrage nationwide. But hundreds of old, commonly used drugs cost the Medicaid program billions of extra dollars in 2016 vs....
View ArticleMany young, low-income women may not be able to access birth control methods
Young, low-income women in Canada are less likely to use more effective methods of birth control like the pill, and more likely to use no contraception or condoms only, according to new UBC research.
View ArticleContraceptive drug effective in preventing and regressing cervical cancer in...
A new study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, reports that medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), the active ingredient in the common contraceptive injection Depo-Provera, was...
View ArticleTexas providers see increased interest in birth control since near-total...
In September, when Texas' near-total abortion ban took effect, Planned Parenthood clinics in the Lone Star State started offering every patient who walked in information on Senate Bill 8, as well as...
View ArticlePatient mistrust and poor access hamper federal efforts to overhaul family...
Two years ago, after an emergency cesarean section at a Mississippi hospital, Sherika Trader was denied a tubal ligation. Trader, now 33, was told that to have her tubes tied, she had to have a second...
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