Can health care providers and patients use texting to promote more consistent birth control use? Yes, they can! Clinicians and public health advocates have discovered something interesting: phone calls, email and snail mail just don’t seem to cut…
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Most of us are familiar with the two most common forms of birth control: condoms and birth control pills. However, lately there has been a rise in use of intrauterine devices (IUDs). In addition to brands such as Mirena, Paragard […]
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Buying condoms isn’t fun. Like most teen guys, I always thought it was a hassle. What I didn’t know, or ever really consider, is that getting hormonal birth control, like the Pill, is even more inconvenient. Buzzfeed’s fictional video…
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Recently, I watched a BuzzFeed video titled “Let’s Actually Talk About Birth Control.” It started off with the narrator asking a couple of high school students and their coworkers what they knew about birth control. Surprisingly, most people…
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Emergency contraception (EC), which can be taken to reduce the risk of pregnancy after unprotected sex, is now available online for a cheaper price than what you would get at your local pharmacy. AfterPill, a generic version of Plan B […]
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I was so happy to find out that Planned Parenthood is doing something that is at once radical and simple: allowing virtual visits for clients in need of birth control through an app. The whole process is relatively simple. Download […]
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When I first heard about the Facebook group “Women Against Feminism,” which actually originated from a very popular Tumblr site, I honestly thought it was a parody. As a self-identified feminist, I found it hard to believe that so many […]
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