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FSRH New Product Review: Intrauterine Ball (IUBTM) Ballerine® MIDI (February 2019) (Updated April 2023)

File size: 425kb | Date: 11 April 2023 | New Product Reviews - PDF

Manufactured by OCON Medical Ltd, the Intrauterine Ball (IUB™) SCu300B MIDI is a copper intrauterine device (Cu-IUD) comprised of copper beads with a total exposed copper surface of 300mm² strung on a flexible Nitinol (nickel/titanium alloy), PET-coated frame. Once the IUB is released from the 3.2mm diameter insertion tube into the uterus it coils into a spherical shape measuring 15mm in diameter. Download the product review in full here.

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FSRH New Product Review: Eloine Daylette (November 2015)

File size: 100kb | Date: 1 November 2015 | New Product Reviews - PDF

How effective is 20mcgEE/3mgDRSP as contraception? 20mcgEE/3mg DRSP is of comparable effectiveness to other combined oral contraceptives. [1,2,3] A large US observational study reports lower failure rates amongst users of a 24/4 EE/DRSP regimen than a 21/7 EE/DRSP regimen. The study also suggests greater contraceptive effectiveness of a 24/4 EE/DRSP regimen than with a 24/4 regimen containing EE in combination with norethisterone.

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FSRH New Product Review: One size contraceptive diaphragm (Caya®) (August 2014)

File size: 240kb | Date: 1 August 2014 | New Product Reviews - PDF

Diaphragms are non-hormonal barrier methods of contraception that protect women against pregnancy by preventing sperm reaching the cervix. A single size contraceptive cap, FemCap, has been available since 2004, but until recently diaphragm products have been made in a range of sizes and designs. As a result women may have been required to try several types of diaphragm during the fitting process.

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FSRH New Product Review: Sayana Press® (June 2013)

File size: 140kb | Date: 1 June 2013 | New Product Reviews - PDF

Injectable progestogen-only contraception is a popular and effective method of contraception and until now, in the UK has largely been administered as Depo-Provera®, an intramuscular (IM) injection of 150mg medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA).