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Abortion First contraceptive patch offers Family planning facilities meet Abortion pill advisory issued, once-week dosing, JAN:1 the challenge of Lunelle JUL:76 Get ready to add contraceptive syringe recall DEC:133 ‘Graying providers’: Will options, MAY:54 Lunelle patient handout, NOV abortion care be limited? Lunelle recall: How are you Supplement:1 MAY:53 meeting the challenge? Lunelle recall questions and DEC:133 answers handout, DEC Condoms NuvaRing issues voucher Supplement:1 Ask questions to assess teen program, JUL:79 Lunelle recall documentation condom IQ, JAN:10 Will rising prices limit options at form, DEC Supplement:1 Condom errors common among clinics? AUG:85 college men, DEC:139 Women want convenient birth Contraceptive patch (Evra) Teens misinformed on proper control, FEB:13 Contrace mpittiizv7ei 0 Tleorcchhnn ology v 1 ReRpoonrnti s condom use, JAN:9 on contraceptive patch, MAY Contraceptive implants Supplement:1 Contraceptives Contraceptive implants headed Family planners embrace patch, Bone loss in DMPA users mostly to U.S., JUN:61 vaginal ring, NOV:121 reversible, DEC:136 Don’t count out implants: 2 First contraceptive patch offers Contraceptive implants headed options may take Norplant’s once-week dosing, JAN:1 to U.S., JUN:61 place, OCT:109 Get ready to add contraceptive DMPA: What is your practice? options, MAY:54 NOV:129 Contraceptive injections (Depo- Will rising prices limit options at Does weight play role in Provera [DMPA], Lunelle) clinics? AUG:85 effectiveness? JUL:80 Ask the Experts: Answers to Don’t count out implants: 2 DMPA, HPV queries, OCT:117 Contraceptive vaginal ring options may take Norplant’s Bone loss in DMPA users mostly (NuvaRing) place, OCT:109 reversible, DEC:136 Contraceptive Technology Reports & Family planners embrace patch, DMPA: What is your practice? on contraceptive vaginal ring, vaginal ring, NOV:121 NOV:129 FEB Supplement:1 Family planners embrace patch, Menopause Contraceptive Technology Reports vaginal ring, NOV:121 HERS II: HRT does not lower on contraceptive vaginal ring, Get ready to add contraceptive cardiac risk, SEP:102 FEB Supplement:1 options, MAY:54 HRT: Review choices in light of Get latest figures on women’s NuvaRing issues voucher new data, SEP:97 health, APR:47 program, JUL:79 Put HRT risks into perspective, Get on-line information on teen Will rising prices limit options at SEP:100 health, MAR:32 clinics? AUG:85 Review WHI study design to Get teen statistics on-line, understand results, SEP:99 APR:46 Emergency contraception What’s in store for hormone use Herpes blood test fact sheet ARHP assumes EC Hotline in women? SEP:101 and reference guide, FEB management, MAR:27 Supplement:1 California offers EC from Oral contraceptives (OCs) Lunelle recall questions and pharmacists, MAR:25 4-periods-per year OC: answers handout, DEC Clinics use web, phone to boost comparable to Pill, AUG:87 Supplement:1 EC access, JUN:66 Mountaineering — how does it Lunelle patient handout, NOV EC access initiatives moving impact OC risk? SEP:106 Supplement:1 forward in U.S., OCT:113 Designer pill packs now Lunelle recall documentation EC gains momentum from local available, OCT:118 form, DEC Supplement:1 to national levels, MAY:49 No link found between OCs and Make plans for AWHONN Make EC focus during March breast cancer, SEP:103 convention, APR:46 campaign, FEB:18 OCs: how are they used? New ARHP brochure highlights More providers offer EC, NOV:128 bone health, AUG:95 NOV:127 OCs and weight gain: Time to New methods included in OTC access sought for EC, banish myths, DEC:137 interactive program, AUG:95 AUG:89 Pill options expand with new, NPWH accreditation program Plan B seeks OTC status in generic OCs, DEC:140 gets approval, OCT:119 Canada, MAY:58 Pill still popular option, Planned Parenthood web site NOV:124 offers teen info, MAY:59 Intrauterine devices (IUDs) Progestin may lower ovarian Save the date for ACNM IUDs: What will it take to shift cancer risk, MAR:28 conference, FEB:23 provider practice? APR:37 Reinforce instructions after STD conference scheduled for More women move to IUD use, Micronor alert, JUL:78 March, JAN:11 NOV:125 Research eyes MI risk in OC use, Washington state initiates Take MAR:29 Charge program, FEB:20 Legislative Thumbs down to over-the- Web sites aid in diverse Administration defunds U.N. counter Pill, NOV:131 audience communication, Population Fund, DEC:142 JAN:8 Proposed new rule may impact Provider resources family planning, MAR:34 Association issues call for Reproductive tract infections SCHIP expansion entangled in conference presentations, Ciprofloxacin-resistant politics, AUG:93 MAR:35 gonorrhea on the rise, JUN:64 Will Congress move on Clinical trials harmed by lack Company to resume shipping abstinence-only efforts? of informed consent, OCT: HIV test kits, AUG MAY:57 Supplement:4 Supplement:3 Contraceptive Technology Examine genital wart treatment Males conferences on the way, options, APR:43 Bring in the men: One clinic’s JAN:11 Family planners asked to up tale, JUN:68 Contraceptive Technology Reports herpes screening, FEB Draw ‘invisible man’ into clinic, on contraceptive patch, MAY Supplement:1 APR:44 Supplement:1 Get latest STD stats from CDC Missing men: Address sexual web site, FEB Supplement:4 health issues, JUN:67 Index CONTRACEPTIVE TECHNOLOGY UPDATE ® / December 2002 Get STD skills up to speed, MAY Test for STDs from single Pap Check candidates for Supplement:4 specimen, OCT Supplement:2 mifepristone trial, APR:41 HAIL program links HIV/AIDS Two trials to examine Check your care of lesbians, info services, FEB:21 microbicides, APR:41 bisexual women, AUG:93 Herpes blood test fact sheet Use on-line resources for Collaboration key to cervical and reference guide, FEB herpes information, FEB cancer screening update, Supplement:1 Supplement:3 JUL:76 HIV vaccines: New generation FDA approves misoprostol label may reduce transmission, Sterilization change, JUL:82 OCT Supplement:1 Consider additional vasectomy Get latest figures on women’s New guidelines issued on technique, FEB:17 health, APR:47 bacterial vaginosis, MAR:31 Get new fact book on Mammography screening New treatment option for sterilization, OCT:118 backed by task force, AUG:90 trichomoniasis? MAY:56 Noninvasive female sterilization Research eyes extending Nonoxynol-9 not protective eyed, FEB:15 menstrual cycles, JAN:3 against HIV, SEP:105 Research examines vasectomy Research looks at new uses for Nonoxynol-9 not protective reversal, JUN:69 mifepristone, APR:39 against STDs, JUN:63 Sterilization options may soon Review new cervical cancer Progress on microbicide front, expand in U.S., OCT:111 screening guidelines, JUL:73 JAN:5 Standard Days Method: Family Research underscores need Women’s health planning option, OCT:114 for STD screening, MAY Address health needs of lesbian, Use resources to teach Standard Supplement:1 bisexual women, AUG:92 Days Method, OCT:116 Take STD skills to next level Ask the Experts: Answers to with new guidelines, AUG DMPA, HPV queries, OCT:117 Supplement:1 Break down barriers to gynecologic care, JAN:6 December 2002 / CONTRACEPTIVE TECHNOLOGY UPDATE