contraceptive
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My smart ring captures nightly skin-temperature data for Natural Cycles, an FDA-cleared digital contraceptive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
One promising candidate was lynestrenol, a hormone drug currently approved for certain menstrual disorders and contraceptive use.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
Established in 1970 under the Public Health Service Act, the Title X program has traditionally aimed to provide access to affordable services, including contraceptive methods, pregnancy testing, options counseling, and sexually transmitted infection testing.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
Organon is best known for its Nexplanon contraceptive implant, but also offers fertility treatments and an expanding pipeline of biosimilars, Food and Drug Administration-approved versions of existing drugs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Ritual and ethical absention and the use of contraceptive drugs seem to have played the major part in maintaining this stability.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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For Bayer, the deal comes after the German agricultural-and-pharmaceutical group completed the sale of a minority stake in its long-acting reversible contraceptives business to Apollo for around 3 billion euros earlier this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The asset-management firm agreed to buy a minority stake in Bayer’s long-acting reversible contraceptives business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The newly established entity will hold Bayer’s long-acting reversible contraceptives business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Usually, invasive species are deliberately targeted by humans to try to bring them under control, like the initiative to feed contraceptives to grey squirrels.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
—Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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