Hormonal Contraception

2 Aug 2010

Public health and development experts agree: contraception is one of the most effective investments a country can make to protect the health of mothers and babies and to enable women's full...

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Sweetening the pill

11 Sep 2008

The health chief said a new health-care-financing model will be proposed next year. What hopes should we have for this fresh initiative, given that it is now the seventh option to be put forward?...

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A period of change

11 Jun 2007

A birth-control pill that enables women to be period-free is set to hit Hong Kong pharmacies. Lybrel, made by Wyeth, was approved last month by the US Food and Drug Administration. Doctors...

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A bitter pill to swallow

8 Apr 2006

Anthony Wu Ting-yuk often drops in unannounced at hospitals to talk to patients and staff, but on one recent visit to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital he was in for quite a shock.

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Women addicts fuel abortion fears

23 Dec 2004

A support group survey has prompted concern that some believe drug habits act as a contraceptive

A help group that surveyed substance-abusing women is worried that some believe their...

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Taking the fright out of the night before

4 Nov 2004

Emergency contraceptive may be easier to get after study finds it is not abused

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

83pc of women seek motherhood - but on their terms

Motherhood is an ambition for eight out of 10 young Hong Kong women - but in their own good time.

8:35AM

A new era in birth control - the patch

Touted as simpler and more convenient than the pill, the EVRA emits medication for a full week

The contraceptive patch, touted to be just as effective but simpler and more convenient...

9:12PM

Slimming pill alert

More than 100 women have been advised to seek specialist treatment after taking mainland-produced slimming pills found to contain fenfluramine, a drug linked to heart disease and banned in Hong...

1:46PM

Copywriters at a loss for words for birth control ad

An advertising campaign to publicise a new government-approved emergency contraceptive has been delayed because copywriters are at a loss to find the Hindi equivalent of English expressions like '...

1:33PM

Women referred to clinics over diet pills

Four women who took a slimming pill that is sold on the mainland and contains a drug linked to heart disease have been referred by the Health Department to the Hospital Authority's outpatient...

12:24PM

Abortion pill good news for our beleaguered planet

I understand that the pill allowing women to terminate a pregnancy in the first nine weeks after conception may soon be available in Hong Kong.

This is something that should be...

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