The effect of smoking was most apparent in those who had never used oral contraception.

'Oral contraception is when you talk your way out of it.'

Therapy with pioglitazone increased risk for pregnancy in those taking oral contraception.

Oral contraception: Medications taken by women to prevent pregnancy.

"We did find evidence of oral contraception, yes."

Trace elements during 2 years' oral contraception with low-estrogen preparations.

Using oral contraception just before a pregnancy doesn't increase the risks of miscarriage or fetal problems.

It's designed as a backup if you forget to take your oral contraception, have a condom malfunction, or fear an unwanted pregnancy for another reason.

The second on their list was oral rehydration therapy (first was oral contraception).

"With the advent of oral contraception, I think there was this great sense that we had a solution to the problem of unintended pregnancy.

Anything that inhibits ovulation - eg, pregnancy or oral contraception - reduces the risk of ovarian cancer.

But the effect was evident even after controlling for body mass, education, the use of oral contraception, and the intake of various foods and drinks.

This was indirect evidence for a reporting bias since women's comfort levels with reporting oral contraception are theoretically higher than induced abortion.

Retrospectively, we became interested in the possibility that high alcohol intake, oral contraception, and obesity might be important and treatable causes under 40.

The most common types of oral contraception include the combined oral contraceptive pill and the progestogen-only pill.

Opposition came from interest groups like Parents Against Oral Contraception for Children, and Family Focus.

Results from the Royal College of General Practitioners' Oral Contraception Study.

Instead of praise, however, the move has met with criticism from feminists and wariness from the public, which is not expected to switch en masse to oral contraception.

On Stuff Mom Never Told You, we've also discussed how oral contraception in particular may lower women's libidos and affect short-term and long-term mating choices.

This report has used further data from the RCGP oral contraception study to examine the influence of smoking and parity on the development of gall stone disease.

In line with the Catholic Church's stand on abortion as well as birth control, Seton hospitals do not provide abortions, oral contraception, emergency contraception, and sterilization.

The chairman and chief executive of Barr, Bruce L. Downey, said the new pill "represents the single most significant advance in oral contraception in the past 40 years."

The availability of oral contraception during the late 1900s was directly related to the women's rights movement by establishing, for the first time, a mass distribution of a way to control fertility.

They said, "Since oral contraception is the method most teen-agers choose, this study provides a clear insight into the reason oral contraceptives have not solved the problem of teen-age pregnancy."

McCormick agreed to fund Pincus research into oral contraception and she and Pincus persuaded Dr. John Rock to conduct human trials.