Reduced medical abortion anxiety, stress with text messaging intervention
Image: PD 1. In a randomized controlled trial, the use of a supportive text-messaging intervention was associated with decreased anxiety ...
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Women electing abortion more likely to be victims of domestic violence
Image: CC/Flickr 1. Women seeking an abortion were more likely to report experiencing physical and emotional violence. 2. Few women ...
Adjuvant misoprostol not associated with improvement in late second-trimester abortions
Image: PD 1. Buccal misoprostol plus laminaria for cervical preparation in late second-term dilation and evacuations (D&Es) resulted in only ...
Pregnancies within 1 year of LEEP more likely to end in spontaneous abortion
Image: PD 1. Women who became pregnant within 12 months of LEEP were more likely to experience spontaneous abortion. 2. ...
Metoclopramide during pregnancy not associated with birth defects or fetal death
Image: PD 1. Metoclopramide use in pregnancy was neither significantly associated with increased risk of major malformations overall nor increased ...
Maternal asthma associated with increased odds of spontaneous abortion
Feb 23rd- Asthmatic women were more likely to experience spontaneous abortion than healthy women. Image: CC/JHeilman 1. Asthmatic women were ...
More U.S. women using emergency contraception pill
Feb 19th – Data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth. Image: PD 1. The percentage of women who ...
Serum hCG equal to ultrasonography in medical abortion follow-up
Feb 16th – After medical abortion, both serum hCG and ultrasonography have low rates of unplanned intervention and are equally ...
