All articles tagged with #hormonal birth control
A growing coalition of conservatives is promoting natural family planning as an alternative to hormonal birth control, emphasizing cycle awareness and fertility signs, amid ongoing debates about reproductive health options.
A new study suggests that women who experienced depressive episodes after starting hormonal birth control are at higher risk of developing postpartum depression compared to those who suffered depression unrelated to hormonal birth control. This finding suggests some women may be more susceptible to hormonal changes linked to both birth control and pregnancy. The study involved health data from nearly 200,000 first-time mothers, but the researchers note the findings may not apply to milder cases of depression. This knowledge could aid healthcare professionals in identifying women at risk of postpartum depression.
A new study published in PLOS Medicine by researchers at Oxford Population Health’s Cancer Epidemiology Unit found that use of progestogen-only hormonal contraceptives is associated with a 20-30% higher risk of breast cancer. The researchers analyzed data from 9,498 women who developed invasive breast cancer between ages 20 to 49 and 18,171 women without breast cancer who acted as controls. The data were collected by the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford and published in the PLOS Medicine journal has found that the use of all kinds of hormonal birth control is associated with a slight increase in the risk of breast cancer. The study also found that the risk associated with progestin-only pills is broadly in line with the risk already known to be associated with contraceptives that combine estrogen and progestin. However, given the small incidence of breast cancer at the ages at which contraceptives are commonly used, researchers do not suggest women stop taking hormonal birth control in light of any risk — which they say is only small.