This book is one of the original books in the Your Questions Answered (YQA) series. It serves as a primary source of information about reversible methods of contraception. Written in an informal - and yet highly informative - question-and-answer style, it represents a dialogue between general practitioner (asking the questions) and reproductive health specialist (providing the answers). As for all YQAs, the main aim of the book is to give practical guidance to busy clinicians when they are faced with patients who wants help with a health problem - for this book, the questions pertain to choosing and using the best means of controlling fertility. Most chapters conclude with questions frequently asked by patient - the answers to which can be very difficult for the unprepared and busy clinician to improvise 'on the spot' in the surgery.

Key Features

• Popular question and answer format
• Practical focus
• Detailed consideration of reversible birth control technology

New to this Edition

• two-colour page design - redesigned in new series style
• additional illustrations and tables
• the Pill chapter (oral contraceptives) has been divided into two chapters to make it more manageable
• new developments covered include: a new 'ring' device (Nuvaring, an Organon product) - this device transmits the pill via a vaginal ring, the patch (product name - Evra) - another method of delivering the pill's hormones, injection - delivery of the pill via injection - product name Lunette, the mini pill (another Organon product) - product name - Cerazette, a new kind of 'cap' (Oves - made by Vios)
• incorporates the new guidance on 'missed pills' from the WHO