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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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Introduction Many women of reproductive age with complex medical conditions receive primary care through an internal medicine (IM) physician rather than an obstetrician/gynecologist.
Rebeca Ortiz Worthington+5 more
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Efficient data augmentation for multivariate probit models with panel data: An application to general practitioner decision-making about contraceptives [PDF]
This article considers the problem of estimating a multivariate probit model in a panel data setting with emphasis on sampling a high-dimensional correlation matrix and improving the overall efficiency of the data augmentation approach. We reparameterise the correlation matrix in a principled way and then carry out efficient Bayesian inference using ...
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Understanding facilitators and barriers to contraception screening and referral in young women with cancer [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Young women with cancer often worry about impaired fertility after treatment but can experience devastating consequences from an unplanned pregnancy during treatment. Contraception screening and referral appear to occur infrequently in cancer
Lindsay, Sarah
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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+13 more
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Consent, mutuality and respect for persons as standards for ethical sex and for sex education
Abstract This article examines Lamb, Gable & de Ruyter's critique of consent as the standard by which one can determine if a sexual encounter is ethical in their ‘Mutuality in sexual relationships: a standard of ethical sex?’. Their examination of this issue is to be welcomed for a number of reasons, including growing criticism of ‘consent’ as the gold
Michael J. Reiss
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Background Initial Canadian federal regulations for the abortion pill, mifepristone, had the potential to impede safe and equitable access to this medication.
Sarah Munro+5 more
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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+3 more
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Anthropological Differences between Contraception and Natural Family Planning [PDF]
Almost twenty years ago, Pope John Paul II in his apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio called on scholars to study the anthropological and moral differences between the recourse to the natural rhythms of a woman’s menstrual cycle (i.e., natural ...
Fehring, Richard, Kurz, William
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Contraceptive use and sexual function: a comparison of Italian female medical students and women attending family planning services [PDF]
Objectives: The aims of the study were to understand how education relates to contraceptive choice and how sexual function can vary in relation to the use of a contraceptive method.
Aquino, C. I.+7 more
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