In my adolescent family planning clinic, we often prescribe DMPA to adolescents who cannot remember to take their oral contraceptive pills and to those who want the convenience of less menstrual ...

Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2010;5(6):673-686. Each year worldwide, over 380,000 women die from pregnancy and pregnancy-related causes. If contraception were made available to unprotected women, ...

The injectable contraceptive depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) appears to increase a woman’s risk of acquiring the sexually transmitted infections chlamydia and gonorrhea by approximately three ...

Seattle, April 12, 2018--Evidence published today on a new contraceptive option is providing one possible answer to an age-old question in family planning: how to address barriers that make it ...

Teenage girl receiving the DMPA vaccinations. The CDC revised its US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use categorization for DMPA injection in women at high risk for HIV infection from ...

To compare longitudinal changes in weight, body fat, and ratio of central to peripheral fat mass among first-time depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) users to women using no hormonal ...

Injection site reactions such as injection site pain, injection site tenderness, injection site nodules, injection site atrophy (persistent) and lipoatrophy of the injection site have been reported ...

Since its introduction nearly 23 years ago, the popular injectable contraceptive depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) has been associated with causing substantial weight gain in some adolescent ...

A new contraceptive option provides a possible answer to an age-old question in family planning: how to address barriers that make it difficult for women to keep using contraception consistently.