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3/13    Want to get your woman on the pill? Show her CNN's link:
        http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/03/13/healthmag.pill/index.html
        \_ About #2: Low-dose pills are actually better than high-dose pills
           in preventing ovarian cancer:
           http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070309/hl_nm/ovarian_cancer_dc
           About #9: My wife's dentist told her that antibiotics also
           decreases the effectiveness of the pill.
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www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/03/13/healthmag.pill/index.html
com Adjust font size: Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font One day you're told that birth-control pills sap your sex drive and make you fat. The next day they're hailed as an easy way to eliminate your period and lower the risk of ovarian cancer. The constant mixed messages and the sheer number of birth control choices is enough to send you running and screaming toward the nearest condom display. com poll found that women have trouble separating birth control truth from "truthiness," the Orwellian tendency to believe something regardless of the facts. Here are 10 myths about the pill and other birth control methods, and why they're not true. Studies show it's safe to suppress your period using various methods: Seasonale, a pill that limits you to four periods a year; or others like Depo-Provera injections that may eliminate your period. "The hormones keep the lining of your uterus thin, so nothing builds up," says Rebecca Gould, MD, an OB-GYN at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. Side effects that usually go away include breakthrough bleeding. Menstrual suppression is great for women with particularly heavy flows, painful cramps and menstrual migraines. Actually, the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers goes down the longer you're on the pill. After one year, endometrial-cancer risk decreases by 50 percent, and after just three to six months, ovarian-cancer risk decreases by 40 percent. After 10 years, the risks are 80 percent lower than normal. "The longer you keep the endometrium thin and the ovaries inactive, you are reducing the chance of the inappropriate cell division that characterizes cancer," says Katharine O'Connell, MD, assistant clinical professor of OB-GYN at Columbia University. A recent review of previous studies, published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, suggests a tiny elevation in risk among current users, which disappears when you quit. Most women link the pill to weight gain, but only breakthrough bleeding is a proven side effect. The Dalkon Shield, pulled from the market in the 1970s, may have contributed to infections that led to infertility. But not the new and safe IUDs, such as ParaGard and Mirena. Pain during insertion (for about three minutes you'll feel a sensation akin to intense menstrual cramps), and cramps and bleeding that can occur for a week afterward. Also, there's an increased chance of infection during the first three weeks, usually because bacteria have been introduced during insertion; The birth control sponge, which blocks the cervix and contains a spermicide, leaves much to chance. Its failure rate is 32 percent for women who have delivered a child vaginally (because the cervix is larger after childbirth); Believe this myth and you may risk getting pregnant if you take a break. It's possible to get pregnant right away after quitting. Half of women get pregnant within three months -- a good reason not to take that break! The first three months of any new hormonal birth control method bring side effects that eventually go away, Gould says. It's past month three and your doctor's telling you to "gut it out"? external link ) 8 MYTH: Taking the pill past age 40 is risky. But if you're over 35 and you smoke, or have uncontrolled high blood pressure or long-term or uncontrolled diabetes, your heart disease and stroke risks are elevated, and the pill raises them. Anyone who fits this profile is fine on a progestin-only "mini-pill" (or Depo-Provera). John's Wort, a popular supplement used for depression, cuts the pill's effectiveness. Researchers think the herb makes your body speed up the metabolism of the pill, preventing the hormones from doing their job. On the flip side, the pill may exaggerate antidepressant effects. No, but birth control pills may increase stroke risk in women who suffer from migraines with aura (added symptoms that include numbness, weakness, hallucinations, or blurred vision). For them, the mini-pill and other estrogen-free hormonal methods are OK. E-mails lay out plan to dismiss US attorneys An e-mail from the Justice Department's Kyle Sampson in March 2005 laid out a simple formula for evaluating whether the 93 US attorneys should stay or go.
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news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070309/hl_nm/ovarian_cancer_dc
Reuters Low-dose "Pill" reduces ovarian cancer risk By Karla Gale Fri Mar 9, 10:33 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Oral contraceptives with low levels of estrogen and progestin reduce the risk of ovarian cancer even more than older versions of the "Pill," according to investigators at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. The benefits of oral contraceptive pills in protecting against ovarian cancer have long been recognized, Dr. Galina Lurie and her colleagues note in their report in the medical journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. However, over the last 30 years the doses of hormones in the pills have been decreased, to reduce side effects. To see how this might have affected ovarian cancer risk, Lurie's group conducted a population-based study in Hawaii and Los Angeles involving 745 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer and a comparison group of 943 women matched by age and ethnicity and who were free of cancer. Health information was collected by standard questionnaires, and interviewers used photo albums to help participants identify the specific oral contraceptive pills they had used. Overall, women who had used any oral contraceptive had a 50 percent reduction in the risk of developing ovarian cancer than women who had never taken the Pill, the investigators report. However, the risk was reduced by 38 percent for women who took high estrogen and high progestin pills, while the risk reduction was 81 percent for those taking pills with low levels of both hormones. "Up to 42 percent of ovarian cancers might have been avoided if all women used some form of combined oral contraceptive pills," Lurie and her associates calculate. Furthermore, they say, "An estimated 73 percent of ovarian cancers might have been avoided if all women used oral contraceptive pill formulation of low estrogen and low progestin." Low-dose contraceptive pills being launched in the Japanese market during a news conference in Tokyo, August 26, 1999. Oral contraceptives with low levels of estrogen and progestin reduce the risk of ovarian cancer even more than older versions of the 'Pill', according to investigators at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.