Contraception Made Easy, second edition


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A concise handbook containing the latest practical guidance on all common contraceptive methods. Contraception Made Easy 2e is an up-to-date handbook for GPs and other healthcare professionals who need easy access to the latest practical guidance on all the commonly used contraceptive methods: combined oral contraceptives (COCs), patches, and vaginal rings progestogen-only pills (POPs), progestogen-only injectables and implants copper intrauterine devices (IUDs) and the levonorgestrel IUS diaphragms, cervical caps, and male and female condoms natural fertility awareness advice/kits emergency contraception male and female sterilisation. This new edition covers the new position on abortion in Ireland and features new material on contraception for: women with weight issues, including obesity and eating disorders women taking teratogenic drugs transgender and non-binary people.




Dermatology Made Easy, second edition


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Dermatology Made Easy 2e has been comprehensively updated but remains designed to help GPs, medical students and dermatologists diagnose skin conditions with confidence. Diagnosis is simplified by providing a comprehensive set of tables which offer differentials by symptom, morphology, or body site – including over 500 thumbnail photos. Once you have narrowed down the diagnosis, cross-references guide you to more detailed descriptions, and another 700 photographs, covering: common infections inflammatory rashes non-inflammatory conditions skin lesions Every section provides consistent information on the disorder: who gets it and what causes it? what are the clinical features and does it cause any complications? how do you diagnose it? how do you treat it and how long does it take to resolve? The book concludes with a comprehensive section on further investigations and treatment options. Dermatology Made Easy is the ideal rapid clinical reference – guiding diagnosis, advising on clinical features and offering the best treatment options. Printed in full colour throughout.




Contraception Made Easy, third edition


Book Description

A concise handbook containing the latest practical guidance on all common contraceptive methods. Contraception Made Easy 3e is an up-to-date handbook for GPs and other healthcare professionals who need easy access to the latest practical guidance on all the commonly used contraceptive methods: combined oral contraceptives (COCs), patches, and vaginal rings progestogen-only pills (POPs), progestogen-only injectables and implants copper intrauterine devices (IUDs) and the levonorgestrel IUS diaphragms, cervical caps, and male and female condoms natural fertility awareness advice/kits emergency contraception male and female sterilisation. This latest edition includes the position on abortion in Ireland and features material on contraception for: women with weight issues, including obesity and eating disorders women taking teratogenic drugs transgender and non-binary people.




Contraception Made Easy


Book Description

This concise book helps healthcare professionals to provide up to date and practical guidance on all the commonly used contraceptive methods: combined oral contraceptives (COCs), patches, and vaginal rings, progestogen-only pills (POPs), progestogen-only injectables and implants, copper intrauterine devices (IUDs) and the levonorgestrel IUS, diaphragms, cervical caps, and male and female condoms, natural fertility awareness advice/kits, emergency contraception male and female sterilization, An opening chapter provides a consultation model to use when seeing patients seeking contraception advice. Subsequent chapters describe each contraceptive method in turn, covering who should use the method, how it works, its efficacy, the advantages and disadvantages, how to start and stop (where appropriate), and how to manage troublesome side-effects. An Appendix provides the full UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for contraceptive use with certain medical conditions. Contraception Made Easy is the ideal practical reference guide for GPs and other healthcare professionals involved in the provision of contraceptive advice.







Contraception Made Easy, Second Edition


Book Description

This concise handbook provides GPs and other healthcare professionals with all the latest practical guidance on all the commonly used contraceptive methods: * combined oral contraceptives (COCs), patches, and vaginal rings * progestogen-only pills (POPs), progestogen-only injectables and implants * copper intrauterine devices (IUDs) and the levonorgestrel IUS * diaphragms, cervical caps, and male and female condoms * natural fertility awareness advice/kits * emergency contraception * male and female sterilisation. This new edition covers the new position on abortion in Ireland and features new material on contraception for: * women with weight issues, including obesity and eating disorders * women taking teratogenic drugs * transgender and non-binary people.




This Is Your Brain on Birth Control


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An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than ever before, and there's good reason to believe that the birth control pill has a lot to do with this. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye. Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay!), sex hormones can't work that way. Sex hormones impact the activities of billions of cells in the body at once, many of which are in the brain. There, they play a role in influencing attraction, sexual motivation, stress, hunger, eating patterns, emotion regulation, friendships, aggression, mood, learning, and more. This means that being on the birth control pill makes women a different version of themselves than when they are off of it. And this is a big deal. For instance, women on the pill have a dampened cortisol spike in response to stress. While this might sound great (no stress!), it can have negative implications for learning, memory, and mood. Additionally, because the pill influences who women are attracted to, being on the pill may inadvertently influence who women choose as partners, which can have important implications for their relationships once they go off it. Sometimes these changes are for the better . . . but other times, they're for the worse. By changing what women's brains do, the pill also has the ability to have cascading effects on everything and everyone that a woman encounters. This means that the reach of the pill extends far beyond women's own bodies, having a major impact on society and the world. This paradigm-shattering book provides an even-handed, science-based understanding of who women are, both on and off the pill. It will change the way that women think about their hormones and how they view themselves. It also serves as a rallying cry for women to demand more information from science about how their bodies and brains work and to advocate for better research. This book will help women make more informed decisions about their health, whether they're on the pill or off of it.




Contraception Made Easy, Revised Edition


Book Description

Updated to incude the 2016 UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for contraceptive use, this book is the ideal practical reference guide for family physicians and other healthcare professionals concerned with contraceptive provision.




Sweetening the Pill


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Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a drug. Depression, anxiety, paranoia, rage, panic attacks - just a few of the effects of the Pill on half of the over 80% of women who pop these tablets during their lifetimes. When the Pill was released, it was thought that women would not submit to taking a medication each day when they were not sick. Now the Pill is making women sick. However, there are a growing number of women looking for non-hormonal alternatives for preventing pregnancy. In a bid to spark the backlash against hormonal contraceptives, this book asks: Why can't we criticize the Pill? ,




America and the Pill


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In 1960, the FDA approved the contraceptive commonly known as “the pill.” Advocates, developers, and manufacturers believed that the convenient new drug would put an end to unwanted pregnancy, ensure happy marriages, and even eradicate poverty. But as renowned historian Elaine Tyler May reveals inAmerica and the Pill, it was women who embraced it and created change. They used the pill to challenge the authority of doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and lawmakers. They demonstrated that the pill was about much more than family planning—it offered women control over their bodies and their lives. From little-known accounts of the early years to personal testimonies from young women today, May illuminates what the pill did and didnotachieve during its half century on the market.




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