Sarah Haskins in Target Women on birth control. This humorous video is about advertising for:
- Seasonique (Seasonal in Canada),
- Yaz
- Nuvaring.
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A Birth Control Pill That Promised Too Much – New York Times.
Oral contraceptives containing drospirenone for premenstrual syndrome – Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Jan 23;(1):CD006586.
Drospirenone plus EE 20 mug may help treat premenstrual symptoms in women with PMDD. The placebo also had a large effect. We do not know whether the COC works after three cycles, for women with less severe symptoms, or better than other COCs. COC =Combined oral contraceptives. PMDD =Premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Review of the vaginal contraceptive ring (NuvaRing) – J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care. 2008 Oct;34(4):247-50.
Efficacy and cycle control are the least comparable to conventional COCs and adverse events are minimal, though vaginal side effects are reported more commonly.
A continuous regimen of levonorgestrel/ethinyl estradiol for contraception and elimination of menstruation – Drugs Today (Barc). 2008 Mar;44(3):183-95.
Patients wishing to use continuous 90 microg levonorgestrel/20 microg ethinyl estradiol must recognize and accept that unscheduled breakthrough bleeding is typical during the first four to six cycles of use. Control of cycle-related symptoms may emerge as an off-label indication for use.