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Birth Control (cont.)
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Introduction to birth control types and options
- Summary and conclusions
- Birth Control At A Glance
- Find a local Obstetrician-Gynecologist in your town
Birth Control At A Glance
- Methods of birth control include barrier, mechanical, hormonal, and natural methods, as well as emergency and permanent methods.
- All methods of birth control are based on either preventing a man's sperm from reaching and entering a woman's egg (fertilization) or preventing the fertilized egg from implanting in the woman's uterus (her womb) and starting to grow.
- No birth control method, except abstinence, is considered to be 100% effective.
- No method of birth control available today offers perfect protection against sexually transmitted infections (sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs), except abstinence.
REFERENCE: eMedicine.com. Contraception.
<http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/258507-overview>
Previous Contributing Medical Authors: Barbara K. Hecht,
Ph.D. and Carolyn Janet Crandall, MD, FACP
Last Editorial Review: 7/16/2010
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