Archive for March 23rd, 2009
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PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is not the sort of thing most people want to know about. Publicity campaigns to inform women and men about this condition have been tried. The letters ‘PID’ adorned billboards and buses for a while. Pamphlets about it sit in racks at hospitals and clinics, but other topics art usually taken [...]
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SO I’M PREGNANT. WHAT NEXT?
If you want to be pregnant, terrific. If you were hoping you weren’t, that’s not so good. If this is an unplanned pregnancy, you may have some thinking to do. Despite the fact that every person’s situation is different, the bottom line is you have to make a choice: to continue with the pregnancy or [...]
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GARDNERELLA AND BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS
The vagina is usually swarming with bugs. These are the ‘normal’ bacteria and organisms which live there and do no harm. Sometimes a few bugs will overgrow, and upset the normal balance, like bullies scaring the other kids out of the playground. It is thought that gardnerella, and a couple of other bugs may be [...]
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POST-COITAL CONTRACEPTION: THE MORNING AFTER PILL (MAP)
There are situations when either no contraceptive precautions were taken, or the attempt failed, for one reason or another. In this situation, within seventy-two hours of ‘unprotected intercourse’ (and the sooner the better, according to recent research), taking two doses of combined oestrogen and progesterone twelve hours apart is likely to prevent implantation of a [...]
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MENSTRUATION: TOO OFTEN
We often hear women complain about having periods, and what a drag it is, and how unfair it is that men don’t get them, etc. However, if your period comes around every two weeks, there may be even more cause for complaint. As long as the problem is not intermenstrual bleeding, which should be investigated, [...]