As if the risks to women that contraceptive pills present were not enough, a study from researchers at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto shows a link between use of the birth control pill and the incidence of prostate cancer. Researchers studied rates of the disease in countries around the world in 2007, and cross-referenced [...] [...more]
According to a recent study, the hormone found in the popular birth control shot causes memory loss in lab rats. Not surprisingly, an Internet search yielded anecdotal reports of memory loss years ago such as this one by “Clara” in 2004: I was on the Depo shot for a year. In the beginning, I was [...] [...more]
According to a study at UC Irvine, hormonal contraceptives have a strong effect on the way women remember emotionally charged events. Researchers tested 72 women who were either naturally cycling or on the pill. Every woman in the study viewed either a brief, narrated story containing “emotionally arousing” elements or one containing only “neutral” elements. [...] [...more]
Some of the newest and most popular oral contraceptives — including the drospirenone/ethinyl estradiol combo marketed as Yaz — have been linked to a small, but significant risk of gallbladder disease, according to a large retrospective cohort study. The study of nearly three million women taking ethinyl estradiol combined with one of seven progestins between [...] [...more]
A Dutch study on the safety of birth control pills shed more light on the dangers of hormonal contraceptives. Scientists have long known that oral contraceptives, which contain the female hormones estrogen and progestogen, increase the likelihood of deep vein thrombosis of the leg and pulmonary embolism, but new studies in Denmark and the Netherlands [...] [...more]
Switzerland’s highest medical authority is investigating the case of a 16 year girl who suffered a lung embolism and is now severly disabled. The victim was taking the hormonal contraceptive Yasmin. Switzerland’s medicines supervisor says it will analyse all birth control pills after a young woman suffered a lung embolism possibly linked to a contraceptive. [...] [...more]
A 2005 press release stating the connection of hormonal birth control and cancer made plenty of headlines when it associated the pill with a lowered risk of ovarian cancer. The very same press release also pointed to findings of a higher risk of breast cancer among women taking the pill. Somehow this news did not [...] [...more]
Nuvaring has been the target of multiple lawsuits. One more death is being attributed to Nuvaring. Is NuvaRing to blame for Jackie Bozicev’s death? Her husband believes so. Jackie died in December 2007. An autopsy showed she died of a blood clot that traveled from her pelvic area to her lungs. Her husband Rob was [...] [...more]
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