Last summer, after a long conversation, my boyfriend and I decided to stop using condoms and start using a diaphragm as our main form of birth control. I’d used it as a teenager and knew the process: ...

Women have used internal barriers in an attempt to prevent pregnancies as far back as ancient Egypt. However, they only became widely known and used after World War I, when they became available ...

Seattle, WA, September 9, 2014. The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has cleared the Caya® contoured diaphragm for marketing in the United States, bringing women one step closer to a ...

Researchers at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk had a role in the development of a new non-hormonal contraceptive, Caya. The single-size diaphragm is the first new design in the U.S. market ...

Seattle, WA, June 20, 2013—Soon, women in Europe may be taking a new look at one of the world's oldest forms of contraception. European regulators have granted the single-size SILCS Diaphragm a CE ...

Prior work suggests an association between perineal use of cosmetic talc and increased ovarian cancer risk. A meta-analysis was performed to examine this hypothesis by evaluating ovarian cancer risk ...

oral contraception_TS_520365492 Unplanned pregnancies can occur when a patient misunderstands the proper use of contraception. A number of years ago I worked for a busy OB/GYN practice. We had several ...

Almost all (98 percent) Zimbabwean women who were unable to persuade their male partners to use condoms consistently, used the diaphragm as an alternative method of contraception and disease ...

Octoxynol-9 1% (50mg/applicatorful); contraceptive jelly; contains parabens. 1 teaspoonful spread over the surface and rim of diaphragm prior to intercourse provides 6 hrs protection. Reapply prior to ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2648288 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2648288 Copy URL Context: In Turkey, where contraceptive prevalence is about 65%, a large number of ...