This review—the last in the present “Quality Use of Medicine” series-will again seek to
demonstrate the applicability of the P-drug process in making a rational medicines choice in …

We have waited 6 years for this moment; the rules put forward for missed pills in 2005 have
finally been revised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) …

Practice update: The pill and the value of choice Page 1 34 pROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
UPDATES THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY VOL.93 MAY 2012 34 Whenever …

In order to devise an objective way of comparing risks and benefits, Family Health
International (FHI) has set up a computer program to calculate the effect on the overall …

We also need to remember the women who have forgotten one pill in the week before the
pill-free interval, and again after the pill-free interval. This situation has been made clear in …

Oral contraceptives are safe for healthy, nonsmoking women, and they provide tremen-dous
therapeutic benefits for perimenopausal women, states Dr Richard Boroditsky. MIany family …

Some oral contraceptives are more heavily estrogenic when metabolized, some more
progestational in their effects, making it possible to utilize these qualities to improve a …

Women who receive one cycle of oral contraceptive pills at initiation are no more likely than
those who receive multiple cycles to still be using the method after four months, according to …

DrugAdministration, needed, even if the drug is on the market, in order to add the indication
to the drug profile. This is in stark contrast to the situationin Europe, where a drug for the …