Background: The UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children
identified emergency contraceptive pills as 1 of the 13 essential underused, low-cost, and …

Emergency contraception (EC) is unique among modern contraceptive methods in its
capacity to prevent pregnancy after sex. Perhaps for this reason, from the days of its earliest …

Emergency contraception has the potential to greatly reduce the number of unintended
pregnancies occurring each year in the United States. Emergency contraception is a safe …

For more than 40 years, physicians and researchers have known that there are ways of
preventing pregnancy after sex. These contraceptive methods range from taking a higher …

Emergency contraception is defined as a drug or device used after unprotected intercourse
or contraceptive failure to prevent pregnancy. 1 Currently, emergency contraception can be …

Emergency contraception has been called “America's best-kept secret.” This article
chronicles what it took to move it from secret to the pharmacy shelf. The fact that an …

Over the past 10 years, leaders of the medical community have played an important-albeit
sometimes lonely-role in efforts to increase access to hormonal contraception by arguing for …

Emergency contraception has the potential to reduce the United States unintended
pregnancy rate by half. This article discusses the evidence on the safety and efficacy of …

Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) are now available in many countries, but have failed
to have the desired impact on unwanted pregnancy rates. Why is this? Earlier barriers to …

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines emergency contraception,
also known as post-coital contraception and the “morning after pill,” as “a therapy for women …