Women Reproduction Health

Last week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a list of preventative health service for women, in which they included the recommendations of free of charge contraception for women requiring them.

The recommendations are supported by many organizations, such as Planned Parenthood as they consider it a step in the right direction towards minimizing the instance of unwanted pregnancies in the United States. However, people in the religious community disagree and are in fierce opposition to the idea.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops even spoke out their objection during the Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, from July 24 through July 30, by saying that the Catholic Church opposes all forms of birth control and favoring the Natural Family Planning. They even offered classes on Natural Family Planning to educate people how to carefully tracks a woman’s menstrual cycle in order to aid or prevent pregnancy. Read more!

The latest generation of oral contraceptive pill, which is marketed in Australia with the name of Yaz and Yasmin has recently being warned for its usage by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) – the Australia’s regulatory agency for medical drugs and devices.

The warning followed the previously issued warning by the British Medical journal which states that women who consume the fourth generation pill are more likely to develop life-threatening blood clots.

According to studies, the pills which contain drospirenone (a synthetic progestin that is typically used in birth control) such as Yasmin and Yaz, when taken two to three times would more likely make the consumer suffer a blood clot compared to those who take other oral contraceptives.
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According to American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist as reported on Reuters Health, the long term contraception called Intra-Uterine Device (IUD) and the contraceptive skin implants, are the safest and most effective birth control for women in productive age.

IUD is made of plastic tool which wraps a copper wire with a T-shape. The tool helps inhibiting pregnancy by preventing the convergence of sperm and egg cells by stopping the sperm’s journey to the fallopian tubes, or by changing the uterus route so that the mature egg cells cannot be fertilized.

Based on the types, IUD can be used effectively within a period of 5-10 years without replacement. Its shape is small enough that gynecologists can easily insert it to the uterus without any difficult procedure.
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Among the types of contraception available today, we can’t actually tell which one is the best or the worst, especially for the type of pills. Because to achieve the desired result, it is actually depends on whether the compositions of compounds in those pills are suitable to your body or not.

We can find many kinds of contraceptives in the market with varied prices. But, as we cannot tell which one is the best or worst, let’s change the question into: Which one is the women’s most favored contraceptive method?

Every contraceptive must have a percentage of failure; none of them offers a 100% guarantee. Therefore, before making a choice, you should first examine the Read more!

Only one month into her daughter’s freshman year, Joan Cummins got a call from a hospital saying that Michelle’s heart was not responding. Joan was informed that her daughter, Michelle, collapsed when she was walking to class and went into cardiac arrest. She later died shortly from a massive blood clot in her lung.

Joan thought that the clot was caused by the birth control pill YAZ and later she sued Bayer, saying that the pill could have contributed to her daughter’s death.

Dr. Jacques Moritz, director of gynecology at New York’s Roosevelt Hospital, as reported on CBSNews.com explained that there has always been concern that the new generation of birth control, such as YAZ, Yasmin, Beyaz, may increase the risk Read more!

There has been an issue that birth control pills, as one of the most practical birth controlling methods, can cause certain unpleasant effects to those who take them. According to some researches, those pills can cause jealousy to women, they can also change how the women feel toward men, and even reduce the bones density which will later cause osteoporosis.

Recently, Dr Alexandra Alvergne from University College London conducted a research to learn how exactly the women feel when they took birth control pills. The research was also performed to find out if there are certain risks which would later affect the couples’ romances, and the health of their children.
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I remember one of my Catholic friends was suggested and even taught about having a natural family planning when she attended a pre-marriage counseling class at her church. I did not know if it was a common thing to be discussed at Catholic church, since I am not a Catholic and not yet married, but my friend said that her mother attended the similar class too and was told about the same thing at that time. Another thing which surprised me, was that her mother applied the natural family planning method all her life, so she never used IUD, took pills, or even used or encouraged her husband to use condoms.

When I read an article on Reuters which was published on April 13, the article said that about 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women have used contraceptive Read more!

If you think that regular contraceptive devices are too intrusive or proven ineffective, or if you are the type who cannot use the estrogen based contraceptives, then you should consider using the newly approved contraceptive device that can be planted in your arms. Meet Implanon, one of the newest breakthroughs in birth control implant that has received FDA approval in July 2006.

Implanon is a contraceptive implant that is made from flexible plastic and shaped like a thin rod, with 40 mm length and 2 mm diameter, or just about the size of a cardboard matchstick. It is used by inserting it just under the skin on the inner side of the upper arm. Although the process does not take much time, local anesthetic is required to do the procedure of inserting.

Implanon does not contain estrogen and, basically, is progestin-based. It works by continually releasing a low dose of Read more!

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Birth control pills will no longer be destined only for women. Men can also participate in birth controlling by consuming pills which are specially made for male who wish to prevent his partner from unwanted pregnancies. For the time being, the pills are still in a stage of clinical test, but once the test completed, the product is expected to be available in the market soon.

With Gendarussa leaves (Justicia Gendarussa) as the main ingredients, the pills were made and researched by several doctors from Sutomo General Hospital, in Surabaya; Dr. Satdjito Hospital, in Yogyakarta; and a private owned hospital in Gresik. The clinical trials were currently performed in the laboratory of Airlangga University’s Medical Faculty.

According to Dr. Hudi Winarso, an andrologist of Baptist Hospital in Kediri, Gendarussa leaves do have substances which can prevent conceiving. The leaves which are used as the main ingredients of the pills came from the rural area of Papua Read more!

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Emergency birth control pills which is popularly known as ‘morning after pill’ (MAP), normally used only in emergency situations that is after having sex. But according to a recent study, as well as other birth control pills, MAP is allegedly safe to be used routinely.

In developed countries including the United States, the using of emergency contraceptives to prevent pregnancy is as popular as the using of condoms. Compared to most birth control pills, emergency contraception are more preferred because they don’t have to be taken on a regular basis despite of containing the same hormone substance called levonogestrel.

The function of levonogestrel in emergency contraception is to prevent pregnancy by inhibiting the ovulation process or the release of eggs. It is generally used by couples who are rarely doing sex, that using long term protection in considered Read more!