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contraceptive

[kon-truh-sep-tiv] / ˌkɒn trəˈsɛp tɪv /


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My smart ring captures nightly skin-temperature data for Natural Cycles, an FDA-cleared digital contraceptive.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 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

Jade Boden-de Mel first experienced "unbearable" pain at 17 but says medics could not identify the cause and prescribed the contraceptive pill to manage it.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2026

Cornell University scientists have taken a major step toward developing a safe, reversible, long-acting and 100% effective nonhormonal male contraceptive, considered the holy grail of male contraception.

From Science Daily Apr. 7, 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

In many states, for example, pharmacists now prescribe medications such as contraceptives and flu treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

This isn't an unusual story – if you're a chronically online woman in your 20s you'll have seen plenty of conversations about hormonal contraceptives like the pill, coil and implant.

From BBC Apr. 11, 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

Faye wants education about the condition in schools for both boys and girls, and for doctors to do more than issue contraceptives.

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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