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Design, Control, and Clinical Applications of Magnetic Actuation Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This review aims to provide a broad understanding for interdisciplinary researchers in engineering and clinical applications. It addresses the development and control of magnetic actuation systems (MASs) in clinical surgeries and their revolutionary effects in multiple clinical applications.
Yingxin Huo, Lidong Yang, Tiantian Xu, Dong Sun   +3 more
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Male contraception [PDF]

Fertility and Sterility, 2016
AbstractApproximately 40 to 50% of pregnancies are unintended. Contraceptive use significantly reduces the risk of unintended pregnancy. Approximately 70% of couples' contraceptive use is female and 30% is male, attributable to the reliance on condoms and vasectomies.
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Contraception and health.

, 2012
Increasing contraceptive use in developing countries has cut the number of maternal deaths by 40% over the past 20 years, merely by reducing the number of unintended pregnancies.
Cleland, John, Conde-Agudelo, Agustin, Peterson, Herbert, Ross, John, Tsui, Amy   +4 more
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Care Leavers Into Parenthood: Support Needs and Effective Practice Approaches Through Transitions From Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is significant local and international evidence to show that young people transitioning from care have children by age 21 at far higher rates than the general youth population. Intergenerational child protection involvement is also far higher for this group.
Jade Purtell, Sarah Morris
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How integrated knowledge translation worked to reduce federal policy barriers to the implementation of medication abortion in Canada: a realist evaluation

Implementation Science Communications
Background Initial Canadian federal regulations for the abortion pill, mifepristone, had the potential to impede safe and equitable access to this medication.
Sarah Munro, Kate Wahl, Sheila Dunn, Courtney Devane, Linda C. Li, Wendy V. Norman   +5 more
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First‐in‐human safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pilot food‐effect study of the candidate antimalarial compound MMV367

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics in healthy participants of orally administered MMV367 (GSK3772701), a novel antimalarial interfering with Plasmodium falciparum acyl coenzyme A synthetase 10/11 function. Methods This first‐in‐human study enrolled 47 healthy male and female participants.
Andrea Kuemmerle, Nand Singh, Denis Gossen, Annick Janin, Raman Sharma, Anthony Cahn, Rachel A. Gibson, Somasekhara R. Menakuru, Erin Lambourne, Tom Dove, Francisco‐Javier Gamo, Laura Sanz, Benoit Bestgen, Stephan Chalon   +13 more
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Another frontier for harm reduction: contraceptive needs of females who inject drugs in Estonia, a cross-sectional study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background Despite increasing contraceptive availability, unintended pregnancy remains a global problem. Developing strategies to reverse this trend and increasing occurrence of withdrawal syndrome among newborn children of females currently injecting ...
Anneli Uusküla, Mait Raag, Sigrid Vorobjov, Don Des Jarlais   +3 more
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Emergency contraception [PDF]

BMJ, 2000
Knowledge and use of emergency contraception world-wide is extremely limited. Recent research has demonstrated that levonorgestrel alone is at least as effective as the Yuzpe regimen and is much better tolerated. Levonorgestrel is likely to become the method of choice in the early 21st century.
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Contraceptive counseling and postpartum contraceptive use [PDF]

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2015
The objective of the study was to examine the associations between prenatal and postpartum contraceptive counseling and postpartum contraceptive use.The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System 2004-2008 data were analyzed from Missouri, New York state, and New York City (n = 9536).
Denise J. Jamieson, Lauren B. Zapata, Polly A. Marchbanks, Cheryl L. Robbins, Sarah Murtaza, Maura K. Whiteman, Kathryn M. Curtis, Denise V. D’Angelo   +7 more
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Emergency Contraception for Adolescents [PDF]

, 2008
Healthy Teen Network recommends that emergency contraception be treated as any other over-the-counter drug by pharmacies and be available over-the-counter without a prescription to adolescents. We encourage teaching adolescents, their parents, and health

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