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Subscription-based health care can deliver medications to your door — but its rise concerns some experts

27Dec

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Subscription-based health care can deliver medications to your door — but its rise concerns some experts

Need help losing weight or handling depression? How about a pill that lowers cholesterol and treats erectile dysfunction?Online subscription services for care have grown far beyond their roots dealing mainly with hair loss, acne or birth control. Companies including Hims & Hers, Ro and Lemonaid Health now provide quick access to specialists and regular prescription deliveries for a growing list of health issues.Hims recently launched a weight-loss program starting at $79 a month without insurance. Lemonaid began treating seasonal affective disorder last winter for $95 a month. Ro still provides birth control, but it also connects patients trying to have children with regular deliveries of ovulation tests or prenatal vitamins. This Netflix-like appro...

Use of Plan B “morning after” pills doubles, teen sex rates decline in CDC survey

14Dec

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Use of Plan B “morning after” pills doubles, teen sex rates decline in CDC survey

The share of American women who say they have ever used emergency contraception after having sex has more than doubled since the so-called "morning after" or Plan B brand pills were approved to be sold without a prescription, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. The increase is among dozens of trends tracked in two reports now released from the CDC's National Survey of Family Growth, examining survey results through 2019 on sex and birth control among teens as well as all women ages 15 to 44 years old. Among teens and adult women who have had sex, 26.6% told CDC's survey through 2019 that they have ever turned to the emergency contraception pills, up from 10.8% in a previous round of the survey from 2006 through 2010. Among...

Tydemy birth control pills recalled, may be ineffective, FDA warns

5Aug

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Tydemy birth control pills recalled, may be ineffective, FDA warns

Thousands of Tydemy brand birth control pills have been recalled, the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday, after testing by drugmaker Lupin Pharmaceuticals found that two lots they made of the tablets might have lower effectiveness. Recalled batches of the Tydemy pills — a combination prescription contraceptive of estrogen and progestin — are of two specific lot numbers listed on the FDA's website. The FDA says the products were distributed nationwide to pharmacies and supermarkets from June 2022 through May 2023. A total of 4,179 boxes have been recalled, according to the FDA's database, which amounts to about 350,000 tablets that might be less effective at stopping pregnancy.People who are currently taking recalled lots of the drugs are urged...

FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill

13Jul

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FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, allowing Americans to buy a daily oral contraceptive without a prescription.Opill, the progestin-only pill from drugmaker Perrigo, will provide an option for obtaining oral contraceptives without needing to first see a health care provider, in hopes of reducing barriers to access, according to the FDA's news release, which notes that almost half of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the U.S. each year are unintended."Today's approval marks the first time a nonprescription daily oral contraceptive will be an available option for millions of people in the United States," Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a news release Thursday mo...