Birth Control Safety

“Plan B” Pill Problems Lead Couples to Try Natural Family Planning

(Mar. 16, 2009) The pattern is predictable: a woman on a medical blog asks whether the abdominal pain she feels after taking the Plan B pill means that anything is wrong. The woman, speaking anonymously, complains that she has had nausea for a week, then diarrhea, and now feels “a constant dull ache on my right side.”

IUD Seeing a Rebirth Among Women, Despite Risks

(Mar. 9, 2009) After years of being off the market, the intrauterine device, or IUD, seems to be experiencing a rebirth by a new generation of women in Chicago and elsewhere in the nation.

Birth Control Hormones Called Into Question

(Mar. 5, 2009) Couples in Des Plaines, Mt. Prospect, Morton Grove, IL and other Chicago suburbs might be interested to know that a top medical journal has hinted of a looming problem with birth control pills,