Early sexual activity in young women has created new problems in contraception and gynecologic pathology for physicians. None of the existing birth control methods seems ideally adapted to the young: oran contraceptives, the only infallible method, may present adverse effects. Intrauterine devices may result in expulsion or infection. Diaphragms or spermicides are less effective and not always well accepted by young girls. The physician, however, must bear in mind that whatever inconvenience may result, birth control is always preferable to an unwanted pregnancy or to abortion. Given the seemingly growing incidence of veneral disease and of abnormalities of cervical cytology, physicians must exercise the utmost care and consider a birth control consultation by a young girl as a full medical act.

Adolescent↗

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[Iatrogenic pathology in gynecology].

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Female↗

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[Contraception and subsequent fertility. General review on the reversibility of oral contraception].

We have carried out a general review of the problem of reversing the contraceptive mehtods using oestrogen-pregestogen contraceptives. We have very carefully reviewed the onset of long cycles showing clearly that they occur more easily in women who have started with irregular cycles, as do post-pill amenorrhoea cases. Spontaneous abortions seem to occur just as often after the pill as in the general population and the alarm that was raised by D. Carr seems to us to be very exaggerated. The infants are normal, have a lower perinatal mortality when we take into account the patients who use this method and there are no more congenital abnormalities than in other patients.

Abnormalities, Drug-Induced↗

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[Resistance of the medical profession to contraception].

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Attitude of Health Personnel↗