Tag Archives: contraception

  1. Smartphone Contraception

    Question Can an app replace your patients’ birth control? Response from Zara Risoldi Cochrane, PharmD, MS (January 08, 2019)[medscape.com] Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions; Director, Center for Drug Information & Evidence-Based Practice, Omaha, Nebraska A mobile app designed to prevent pregnancy made headlines earlier this year when it became…

  2. Birth Control Counselors Boosts Use of IUDs

    An article, published by NPR, reported on a study in the journal Lancet which was conducted by the University of California, San Francisco and 40 Planned Parenthood facilities in 15 states. The study sought to test the hypothesis that educating health care providers about the latest long term reversible contraceptive methods would decrease the number…