contraceptive
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All pharmacists and pharmacy technicians delivering the service have received specialist training to provide emergency contraception and wider contraceptive care.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
One promising candidate was lynestrenol, a hormone drug currently approved for certain menstrual disorders and contraceptive use.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
Established in 1970 under the Public Health Service Act, the Title X program has traditionally aimed to provide access to affordable services, including contraceptive methods, pregnancy testing, options counseling, and sexually transmitted infection testing.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
Organon is best known for its Nexplanon contraceptive implant, but also offers fertility treatments and an expanding pipeline of biosimilars, Food and Drug Administration-approved versions of existing drugs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Ritual and ethical absention and the use of contraceptive drugs seem to have played the major part in maintaining this stability.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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In contrast to China’s coercive one-child policy, Thailand’s “reproductive revolution” was the result of a voluntary rollout of contraceptives, including to married women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
As well as anti-depressants, women can be offered the contraceptive pill and other contraceptives like the Mirena coil, which helps to regulate hormones.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
The teen birthrate fell 7% last year, extending a yearslong decline related to public-health campaigns and growing use of longer-acting contraceptives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
She was given various contraceptives to ease the pain but they did not help.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
—Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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