Modern pills, known as "low-dose oral contraceptives (OCs)," contain ethinyl estradiol at concentrations of 20-35 µg. The subsequent discovery of deleterious effects of progestin on the lipid ...

Using the oral contraceptive pill: slightly increases your risk of breast and cervical cancer in the short term, but substantially reduces your risk of cancers of the uterus and ovaries in the ...

School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) on skeletal health, soft tissue injury, and performance ...

From May 1, the oral contraceptive Slinda (drospirenone) will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). This ...

A contraceptive pill containing female hormones oestrogen ... is another experimental, once-daily oral medication being developed as a male contraceptive that suppresses testosterone and sperm ...

It’s a little pill with big responsibilities. But despite its primary role to prevent pregnancy, the contraceptive pill (or ‘the Pill’) could also help reduce the risk of ovarian cancer ...

Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of Ovarian Cancer (2008) Ovarian cancer and oral contraceptives: collaborative reanalysis of data from 45 epidemiological studies including 23,257 ...

Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman “As a result, one in three Australian women aged 18-39 who use the combined oral contraceptive pill are paying for a non-PBS listed pill which costs them ...

The oral contraceptive pill was approved for distribution in Australia in 1961, on the written prescription of a medical practitioner. “Access was therefore under the control of doctors ...