Combination Oral Contraceptive Pills
Combination oral contraceptive pills (COCs) have been available in the United States for over 50 years and are the most common single form of contraception used by US women. Up to 82% of women who have ever been sexually active have used COCs, and 19.4% o
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Donna Shoupe Editor
The Handbook of Contraception Evidence Based Practice Recommendations and Rationales Third Edition
Current Clinical Practice Series Editor Tommy Koonce Family Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, USA
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Donna Shoupe Editor
The Handbook of Contraception Evidence Based Practice Recommendations and Rationales Third Edition
Editor Donna Shoupe Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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This book is dedicated to my mentor Dr. Daniel Mishell, Jr. who led the field of contraception for over 40 years. For most of my training and early career, Dr. Mishell was editor of the leading journal Contraception. His major funding came from the World Health Organization, the Population Council, and the Ford Foundation. I worked for him for several years in the only clinical research and training center in human reproduction in the USA that was one of only 16 in the world. In the 1960s, Dr. Mishell performed the first immunoassays of human chorionic gonadotrophin in urine and serum, which was the breakthrough that lead to the first pregnancy tests in the USA not involving animals such as rabbits or frogs. He was the first to describe the midcycle luteinizing hormone peak in the middle of the menstrual cycle which eventually led to the home ovulation test that allows women who want to become pregnant to determine when they are most fertile.
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