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The First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Gets Official Approval
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, which will let American women and girls buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it cleared Perrigo’s once-a-day Opill to be sold without a prescription, making it the first such medication to be moved out from behind the pharmacy counter. The company won’t start shipping the pill until early next year, and there will be no age restrictions on sales. Hormone-based pills have long been the most common form of birth control in the U.S.,...
Source: TIME: Health - July 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MATTHEW PERRONE / AP Tags: Uncategorized Equality wire Source Type: news

Drought in the Semiarid Region of Brazil: Exposure, Vulnerabilities and Health Impacts from the Perspectives of Local Actors
Conclusion The results obtained from this research shows, in general, the fragility in the social and political infrastructure necessary to improve the living conditions of populations, particularly those that depend on family agriculture in drought prone areas. The conditions of social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities presented in the region can be amplified by the drought process, and can aggravate the impacts resulting drought events, thus disadvantaging the population of this region, as shown in the Fig. 1. The general perception of the interviewees of the health sector shows an agreement with what is found...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - October 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aderita Sena Source Type: research

An Unusual Cause Behind Diffuse Itching and Redness
​BY MARISEL ​​VAZQUEZ​; ARIEN KASRA; & AHMED RAZIUDDIN, MDA 70-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer and a lumpectomy and lymph node dissection 20 years before presented to the ED because of redness and itching for two weeks covering the entire surface of her skin. Two weeks before that, she went for a Pap smear and was prescribed fluconazole for Candida vulvovaginitis infection. She took one dose of the fluconazole and an hour later became itchy and red and felt as if her entire body were burning.The itching and redness were diffuse and had persisted for two weeks, neither worsening nor...
Source: The Case Files - September 10, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: research

The Florence Statement on Triclosan and Triclocarban
Author Affiliations open 1Biodesign Center for Environmental Security, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA 2Green Science Policy Institute, Berkeley, California, USA 3Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 4Environmental Working Group, Washington, District of Columbia, USA 5Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 6Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Public Health Sciences, Charleston, South Carolina, USA 7Health Research Communicati...
Source: EHP Research - June 20, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Daniil Lyalko Tags: Brief Communication Source Type: research