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The use of emergency hormonal contraception in South Africa: current and future perspectives

South African Family Practice, 2019
Emergency hormonal contraceptives play an important role in preventing unplanned pregnancies in South Africa. In this review, we discuss the levonorgestrel emergency contraceptive, the combined estrogen and progestin regimen (also known as the Yuzpe ...
N. Dahan-Farkas, M. Vally
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Fake-talk, Side Effects and the Trouble with Hormonal Contraceptives among Women in Dar es Salaam

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2023
This article analyses women’s accounts about hormonal contraceptives in Tanzania, and the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that cause them to use such contraceptives, even as they called them ‘feki’ (Swahili for fake).
Rhoda Mkazi Bandora
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Use of an Evidence‐Based Guideline for Management of Side Effects from Long‐Acting Reversible Contraceptives: A Quality Improvement Report [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction Many health care providers believe that women who initiate long‐acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) discontinue the method because of side effects too soon for the method to be economical.
Glantz, J. Christopher, Jacobson, Julia, Nasso, Jacqueline   +2 more
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Inventory of personal factors influencing conditioned pain modulation in healthy people: a systematic literature review [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) is believed to play an important role in the development and exacerbation of chronic pain, because dysfunction of CPM is associated with a shift in balance between pain facilitation and pain inhibition.
Calders, Patrick, Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Dorien, Goudman, Lisa, Hermans, Linda, Meeus, Mira, Van Oosterwijck, Jessica   +6 more
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50 years of hormonal contraception – time to find out, what it does to our brain

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014
Hormonal contraceptives are on the market for more than 50 years and used by 100 million women worldwide. However, while endogenous steroids have been convincingly associated with change in brain structure, function and cognitive performance, the effects
Belinda ePletzer, Belinda ePletzer, Hubert Hannes Kerschbaum, Hubert Hannes Kerschbaum   +3 more
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Influence of hormonal contraceptives and the occurrence of stroke: integrative review

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objective: To identify scientific evidence regarding the influence of hormonal contraceptive use and the occurrence of stroke. Method: Integrative review of the literature, through database search using the descriptors "contraceptive agents ...
Adman Câmara Soares Lima, Larissa Castelo Guedes Martins, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, Thelma Leite de Araújo, Francisca Elisângela Teixeira Lima, Priscila de Souza Aquino, Escolástica Rejane Ferreira Moura   +6 more
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Determinants of Sexual Activity and Its Relation to Cervical Cancer Risk among South African Women [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND. Invasive cervical cancer is the commonest cause of cancer morbidity and mortality in South African women. This study provides information on adult women's sexual activity and cervical cancer risk in South Africa. METHODS.
Carrara, Henri, Cooper, Diane, Denny, Lynnette, Hoffman, Margaret, Kelly, Judy, Rosenberg, Lynn, Shapiro, Samuel, Stander, Ilse, Williamson, Anna-Lise   +8 more
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Biomaterial design strategies for enhancing mitochondrial transplantation therapy

BMEMat, EarlyView.
Biomaterials to facilitate mitochondrial transplantation therapy: biomaterials as barriers to protect mitochondria from pathophysiological microenvironments, like osmotic stress caused by the excessive concentration of calcium ion, reactive oxygen species, and advanced glycation end products; biomaterials integrating with biochemical cues to improve ...
Shaoyang Kang, Yushan Zhang, Hang Li, Sirui Peng, Donghao Lyu, Chunxiao Zhou, Sheng Ding, Zujian Feng, Pingsheng Huang, Chuangnian Zhang, Hongjun Wang, Deling Kong, Weiwei Wang   +12 more
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The Prevalence and Implications of Polypharmacy in Individuals With Type 1 Diabetes

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Polypharmacy is increasingly recognized as a relevant issue in diabetes care, but its prevalence and clinical relevance in individuals with type 1 diabetes remain underexplored. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of polypharmacy and to identify associated clinical and psychological factors. Participants were recruited from a tertiary diabetes
Namam Ali, Stephan van Erp, Cornelis Kramers, Cornelis J. Tack, Bastiaan E. de Galan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Pay for Performance on Prescribing of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception in Primary Care: An Interrupted Time Series Study [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), a major pay-for-performance programme in the United Kingdom, on prescribing of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) in primary care.
Arrowsmith, ME, Lee, JT, Majeed, A, Saxena, S   +3 more
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