Background Medical abortion became an alternative method of pregnancy termination
following the development of prostaglandins and antiprogesterone in the 1970s and 1980s …

Background Family planning is key for reducing unintended pregnancies and their health
consequences and is also associated with improvements in economic outcomes. Our …

Parenteral sustained release drug formulations, acting as preferable platforms for long-term
exposure therapy, have been wildly used in clinical practice. However, most of these …

Método: Estudio analítico transversal de la Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar
(ENDES) de 2019. Se incluyeron las mujeres embarazadas que participaron en la encuesta …

METHODS Data were collected in 2014 from a nationally representative sample of 822
facilities that provide abortion or postabortion care, and from 82 key informants …

The sustained release of levonorgestrel, a contraceptive, from silk-based microneedle
patches was demonstrated for transdermal delivery. Modifications in the formulation of the …

Abortion care is a fundamental part of women's reproductive health care. Surgical and
medical abortion methods are safe and effective throughout the gestational age range …

Government policies on abortion are a longstanding topic of heated political debates. The
COVID-19 pandemic shook health systems to the core adding further to the complexity of …

Access to effective affordable contraception is critical for individual and public health. A wide
range of hormonal contraceptives (HCs), which differ in composition, concentration of the …

When Zika made headlines in 2016, images of women cradling babies affected with
microcephaly spread across the media and pulled on heartstrings. But, as this book argues …