Endocrine Abstracts

Unintended pregnancy is common. Most European governments are concerned by abortion rates which, if not rising, seem stubbornly difficult to reduce. Moreover by no means all unintended pregnancies are aborted: in the UK, almost one third of pregnancies which end in childbirth are unplanned or mistimed. While no method of contraception is 100% effective, few induced abortions are the result of true method failures; most are due to unprotected sex or incorrect/ inconsistent use ...

The balance between the benefits and the risks of contraceptive steroids is generally positive in particular when comparing to the risks of pregnancy and especially in women with risk factors. Since recently the most common estrogen contained in the OCs remained ethinyl-estradiol although the doses used per tablet decreased dramatically in the most recent combinations. In parallel with the change in the progestin content from androgenic to non or anti-androgenic molecules, the...

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