OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on the most recent progestogens to be developed, to provide clinical comparisons with older progestogens and to look at the potential of products not yet marketed. DATA SOURCES: Searches of Medline and Po…
Twenty-seven women requesting postcoital contraception were randomly allocated to take an ethinylestradiol/dl-norgestrel combination or danazol. Urine specimens were assayed for luteinising hormone (LH) and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide (P3G) …
SummarySummaryAn early specialist in this subject, the Persian physician Al-Razi who died about 924, wrote 'first, immediately after ejaculation, let the two come apart and let the woman arise roughly, sneeze and blow her nose several times…
A postcoital contraceptive with a lower incidence of nausea and vomiting than oestrogen-progestogen combinations would be a significant advance. During a nine-month period, 101 women were treated at the Margaret Pyke Centre in London with e…