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  • Bismuth subcitrate potassium, metronidazole, and tetracycline

    12/28/07, Healthwise

    Check the labels of any medicines or food products you use to make sure they do not contain alcohol.

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  • Raltegravir

    11/15/07, Healthwise

    Before using raltegravir, tell your doctor if you are allergic to any drugs, or if you have a muscle disorder, kidney disease, or liver disease.

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  • Preventive Measures

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    It is important to distinguish between birth control and prevention of STDs. While birth control pills and IUDs help prevent pregnancy, neither measure offers any worthwhile protection against disease.

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  • Emergency Contraception

    05/23/06, Healthwise

    Emergency contraception is a way to prevent pregnancy if:

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  • Barrier Contraceptives

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Women have been using barrier contraceptives for more than 3,000 years. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans inserted a mixture of herbs, tree resins, and honey or oil into their vaginas. Some African women used hollowed-out okra pods as a vaginal

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  • IUDs - Still Worth Considering

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    If intrauterine devices were automobiles, the Dalkon Shield would have been a Pinto, according to a 1992 news article in USA Today. The faulty design of both products warranted a massive recall and served to smudge the reputation of their manufactur

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  • What Was the Dalkon Shield?

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Throughout this century, IUDs have been manufactured in many different shapes and sizes. The first devices came on the market in 1909. These simple nickel, bronze, and catgut rings later gave way to FDA-approved plastic devices that looked like squi

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  • How IUDs Got a Bad Name

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    During the 1960s and 1970s, IUDs thrived. All of them were made of plastic (polyethylene), with some barium sulfate added so that they would show up on x-rays. The first American IUD, a large device called the Margulies Coil, caused a lot of bleedin

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  • Are Today's IUDs Right For You?

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Scientists aren't sure why the IUD is such an effective method of birth control. It was once thought that, as foreign objects, they produced an inflammatory response in the uterus that disrupted the implantation of a fertilized egg, but researchers

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  • How Effective Are IUDs?

    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Like the famous battery, the IUD "keeps working, and working, and working." Depending on the brand, it will protect you from pregnancy for up to 10 years. And, best of all, you don't have to do anything: There's no pill to remember or device to inse

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