Tag: pills
Morning-after pills for STDs worry doctors
Doxycycline is an old drug against several different bacterial diseases such as Lyme disease and Chlamydia. But abroad, the medicine has started to be used as a morning-after pill against…
Erectile dysfunction pills should not be combined with certain heart treatments
News Published on 01/16/2024 at 3:27 p.m. Updated 01/16/2024 at 3:27 p.m. Reading 2 min. According to a new study, taking treatments for erectile dysfunction (Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, etc.) and…
‘Patients often want fewer pills, but do not discuss this sufficiently’
Utrecht – Many long-term medication users want to deal with medication use differently, reports the Institute for Responsible Medicine Use (IVM). For example, patients doubt the usefulness of the medication…
Gilad Korngold sleeps with the help of sleeping pills and hopes to get his family back from the Hamas tunnels
Hamas has promised to return 50 hostages to Israel and Israel to release 150 Palestinian prisoners. Israeli grandfather Gilad Korngold is both happy and worried. Hamas is about to release…
Alice, 17, had clots in her brain after taking birth control pills
Rare gene carrier – only 1-2 in 100,000 are affected Updated 06.39 | Published 06.29 Share the article Save the article After two months on the pill, Alice, 17, developed…
Gave daughter abortion pills – sentenced to prison
The woman allegedly ordered the pills online and gave them to her then 17-year-old daughter who was in the third trimester of her pregnancy. The police began investigating the women…
Deaths linked to sleeping pills are on the rise
full screen Last year, 814 people died in Sweden as a result of poisoning from either medicines or drugs, according to the Swedish Medicines Agency’s compilation. Archive image. Photo: Anders…
86 million captagon pills seized in Dubai
It is a drug that floods the Gulf countries, often considered one of the main markets. A major seizure of captagon was announced this Thursday by the authorities of the…
What are the different types of birth control pills?
There are two main families of pills: estrogen-progestin and microprogestin. And four generations since the first marketing in 1960. Each pill has its mode of action, its side effects and…
Generations of pills: table, list, differences
1, 2, 3, 4… Different generations of pills are marketed in France depending on the nature of the progestogen(s) they contain. Their indications, side effects or risks are not the…