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Are you confused by all the birth control options out there? In the last 10 years, there have been so many advances in pregnancy prevention that it's easy to get overwhelmed when deciding which one is right for you.

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This year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandated Bayera 'maker of the birth control pill, Yaza 'to run a correction to its Yaz marketing that cost some $20-million. Bayer must also submit its ads to the agency for approval resulting from a legal settlement obtained by some state attorneys general and the agency.

The New Jersey judiciary is considering a request from Passaic County, N.J.'s top judge for mass tort status for a growing number of suits alleging strokes and other serious health problems from the oral contraceptives Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella.

Is this a rare case of Teva Pharmaceutical being forced to swallow its own bitter medicine? The world's largest generic manufacturer, founded on its unflinching willingness to challenge the patented protection of branded products owned by other drugmakers, is suing generic rival Mylan .

A WOMAN who killed her unborn twins by injecting herself with drugs to induce their birth was jailed yesterday after going on the run.

October was National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we should have been talking about how birth control drugs can double, or triple a woman's risk of developing breast cancer if she is over 40 and has been on a pill, worn a patch or had an injection for five, 10 or 20 years or more.

Abstract Women outlive men, but life expectancy is not influenced by hormone replacement therapy.

Audiologist Elizabeth Alsgaard spent about $1,000 for saliva tests, hormone creams and custom-compounded hormone pills the doctor prescribed.

Yasmin Aguilar began working with the Agency for New Americans soon after her arrival here in 2000, as a new American and a refugee from Afghanistan.

Start with a visit to your doctor. If you don't have one you really trust, fix that problem before you try to tackle the rest, women's health experts recommend.

The lawsuit, captioned Galinis v. Bayer Corp. et al 09-cv-4980, is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

A hormone in some birth control pills made by Bayer may cause dangerous blood clots, studies have found.

A Newark, Calif., woman and her husband sued drugmaker Bayer in federal court in San Francisco on Monday, saying she suffered a debilitating stroke after taking the company's popular birth control pill Yaz for a month.

What side effects are normal on alesse? 10/14/09 Danielle Topics: Alesse birthcontrol side effects and risks I started the pill more than 3 weeks ago and since then I've had my period ever since! More than just spotting, I'm also mildly depressed, extremely irritable and very uninterested in sex.

I need to know if I could possibly be pregnant? 10/15/09 glob1222 Topics: birth control and antibiotics issues I am 18 years old, and have been on birth control for about five months, but I recently had sinusitis and tonsilitis and was put on augmentin 4000 mg a day.

Swissmedic, the medical regulatory agency in Switzerland, is looking into the death of a young woman who suffered a pulmonary embolism that appears to be a side effect of her birth control medication.

Breast tenderness in women taking estrogen/progestin hormone replacement therapy could signal increased chances of developing breast cancer, a new study says.

Survivor: Samoa 's Yasmin Giles: 'Brett Threw Me Under the Bus' October 10, 2009 When her tribe decided she didn't perform around camp, Yasmin Giles , a 33-year-old hairstylist from Detroit, was the first person voted out of Galu and the fifth person ousted from Survivor: Samoa .