The government will legalise the home-use of early medical abortion pills in England by the end of the year. Under the plans, women will be allowed to take the second of 2 early abortion pills in the safe and familiar surroundings of their own home....
Now available online: Effect of exogenous estrogens and progestogens on the course of migraine during reproductive age: a consensus statement by the European Headache Federation (EHF) and the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESC). We systematically reviewed data about the effect of exogenous estrogens...
3 developments related to the ESC Teaching-tool We will once again offer the option to people teaching in the field of contraception and opinion leaders to visit an ESC-TTT course in Belgrade in November. You can find more course details here. Registration deadline: 15 September...
Theme: 'Cultural and ethnic diversity in a changing Europe – Let the conversation begin.’ We are well aware that an attractive innovative scientific program is essential to reach success. It would be helpful to have your view on what we should include in the program....
The World Health Organization is supporting the development of a minimum data set (core outcome set) for abortion trials, called the STAR project, as part of the global COMET initiative. Research studies on abortion have collected and reported many different outcomes and outcome measures, but...
Mr. Irving Sivin is the recipient of the SFP (Society of Family Planning) Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Sivin’s field is statistics. He worked for 40 years at the Population Council, during which time he produced more than 120 journal articles, book chapters, booklets and one...
Gunta Lazdane is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and has been Professor and Head of the University Department in Riga Stradins University, Latvia. Since 2003, she has worked at the WHO Regional Office for Europe as the programme manager for Sexual and Reproductive Health in the...
On behalf of the German Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA), Evert Ketting presented a brandnew study on Sexuality Education in Europe, the full report of which which became available on the internet a few days earlier, link . https://www.bzga-whocc.de/en/publications/report-on-sexuality-education-in-europe-and-central-asia-new/ This study, called "Sexuality Education...
FC YS Free Communications - Young scientists Full abstracts 13:45 - 14:00 • Implementing a venous thromboembolism risk assessment in an abortion service • F. von Hawrylak (UK) 14:00 - 14:15 • The modulation of progestins in the RNA expression of progesterone and glucocorticoid receptors in...
The European Parliamentary Forum on Population & Development (EPF) launched the Contraception Atlas 2018. In this second edition, the Atlas tracks government policies on access to contraceptives, counselling, and provision of online information, in 46 European states. Belgium, France and the United Kingdom rank best...