What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe contraceptive pill should be available over the counter without the need for a doctor's prescription, according to an editorial in The Lancet (4 September 1993).
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* Have your cholesterol checked and switch to a low-cholesterol diet, if necessary, to avoid gallstone development.
For every time, there is a season and, for every woman - if drug companies have their say - there is a contraceptive pill. Despite the mountain of evidence that the Pill can be dangerous, even life-threatening, the pharmaceutical industry keeps...
There’s nothing like a new drug to cause amnesia in the medical community. Fresh from the Women’s Health Initiative and other massive studies showing that hormone replacement therapy causes cancer, doctors are now waxing lyrical over the benefits of...
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* Check female hormone levels (by a simple lab test) as these conditions are all hormone-related. The key is to stabilise the hormonal situation causing the cyclic upset
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